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True Image of the Holy Face of our < 
j Lord Jesus Christ, Religiously venerated J 
\ and kept in Rome, in the Basilica of Saint 
> Peter, in the Vatican. 



SISTER SAINT.PIERRE 

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THE WORK OF REPARATION. 

THE VERY REV. P ."JANVIER,. 

Director of the Priests of the Holy Face at Tours. 

TRANSLATED BY MISS MARY HOFFMAN. 

♦ 

WLitb a fl>retace 

BY 

THE RT. REY. MGR. T. S. PRESTON, Y.G., LLD, 



Published for the Benefit of the Discalced Car- 
melites of New Orleans, with an Appendix of 
Prayers and Devotions for the Confra- 
ternities of the Holy Face. 



New York : 
THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY CO.,. 

9 Barclay Street. 
London : BURNS & OATES, 28 Orchard St. 

1885. 







imprimatur : 

JOHN CARDINAL McCLOSKEY, 

Archbishop of New York. 
,April 12, 1885. 



imprimatur: 

4« CAROLUS, 

Archiep* Turon, 
16 Aprilis, 1882. 



Malmouche, V. C. 
]May 8, 1684. 



Copyright, 1884, by 
Discalced Carmelite Nuns of New Orleans, La. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Preface, .9 

Author's Preface, 15 

LIFE OF SISTER SAINT-PIERRE. 

Chap. I. Her Youth,' • • • 19 

" II. Ucr Mission, • . . .27 

M III. Her Revelations on the Reparation, . . . 41 
44 IV. Her Revelations on the Holy Face, . . .51 

44 V. Her Prayers for France, 61 

" YL The Archconfraternity of the Reparation, . . 73 

M VII. Her Virtues, 86 

44 VIII. Her Last Sickness— Her Heath, .... 96 
44 IX. The Confraternity of the Holy Face, . . .103 

Conditions for "being Received into the Confraternity of the 
Reparation of the Holy Face, 109 

APPENDIX.— CONTAINING RULES, PRAYERS 
AND DEVOTIONS FOR THE CONFRA- 
TERNITY OF THE HOLY FACE. 

Historical Notice, Il5 

Rules of the Confraternity of the Holy Face, .... 117 
Promises of Our Lord Jesus Christ in favor of all who Honor 

his Holy Face, . . . . < . . .12$ 

Devotion to the Holy Face of Our Lord, . . . .132 

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Contents. 



1»AGE 

Pious Reflections upon the Holy Face, 134 

Little Scapular of the Holy Face, 142 

Little Chaplet of the Holy Face, 143 

An Act of Resignation for the Sick, 145 

A Collection of Prayers and Exercises, . . . . .146 

Litany of the Holy Face, 162 

Act of Reparation for Blasphemy and Irreverence, . .167 
An Offering of the Infinite Merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 169 
A Hundred Offerings of our Lord Jesus Christ to His Eternal 

Father, 172 

The Sacred Humanity of Jesus, 185 

An Offering to the Eternal Father, 189 

A Little Exercise in Honor of the Five Wounds, . . .194 

A Prayer for the Church, 196 

Devotions in Honor of the Holy Infant Jesus, . . .198 

Gospel of the Holy Name of Jesus, 202 

Prayers in Honor of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin 

Mary, 205 

Sister Saint-Pierre's Prayer to the Queen of Carmel, . . 209 

Our Lady of La Salette, . 210 

Forty Days' Prayer for the Needs of the Church and State, . 213 
Salutation to the Holy Veil of St. Veronica, .... 214 
Canticles in Honor of the Holy Face, . . . . .215 

A Rhythm, 222-225 

Devout Address to the Sacred Face, 227 



PREFACE. 




HE following work is a transla- 
tion of the brief Life of Sister 
Saint-Pierre which was pub- 
lished by the Rev. Father Janvier at 
Tours in 1882 with the approbation of 
his archbishop. Her own account of her 
experiences, and remarkable manifesta- 
tions of the divine favor, has been al- 
ready given to the public by the in- 
strumentality of the Carmelite Nuns of 
New Orleans.* This Life, collated and 
completed by means of her letters and 
the annals of her monastery, was pub- 
lished by the Rev. P. Janvier, Dean 

* Life of Sister Saint-Pierre, a Carmelite of Tours. Writ- 
ten by herself. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. 1884. 
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10 Preface, 

of the Metropolitan Church of Tours 
and Director of the Priests of the Holy 
Face. It bears the imprimatur of the 
Archbishop of Tours ; and the English 
translation is approved by the Arch- 
bishops of Baltimore and New Orleans, 
and by other prelates. 

The present work by the devoted Fa- 
ther Janvier is, as he explains in his 
preface, an attempt to give the principal 
facts in the life of the saintly Carmelite, 
with an account of the Work of Repa- 
ration to which the Confraternity of the 
Holy Face is consecrated. We think it 
will be read by pious Catholics with 
much edification and profit. His Grace 
of Baltimore tells us that " her Life is 
calculated to promote piety and edifica- 
tion not only in cloistered institutions, 
but also in the ranks of the secular life." 

The Archbishop of New Orleans warm- 
ly approves and recommends it, and de- 



Preface. 11 

clares "that lie will be glad to see it 
rapidly diffused amoDg the faithful, who 
will find it a treasure of edification and 
instruction calculated to inspire them 
with devotion to the Holy Face." The 
question of the virtues of Sister Saint- 
Pierre has not been raised at Rome, and 
the Holy See has thus far decided no- 
thing in regard to the supernatural charac- 
ter of the revelations which she received. 
But, with the approbation of the Su- 
preme Pontiff, the Confraternity of the 
Holy Face has been established, and 
there can be no reason to doubt the 
many miracles wrought through the in- 
strumentality of M. Dupont, the Holy 
Man of Tours. The Confraternity of the- 
Holy Face was established at St. Dizier in 
1847, and at Tours in 1876, where now 
there is an association of priests espe- 
cially devoted to its interests. It has 
been enriched by indulgences granted by 



12 Preface. 

Pius IX. of blessed memory, and Leo 
XIII. gloriously reigning. 

The brief of Leo XIII. dated Decem- 
ber 9, 1884, recognizes the confraternity 
at Tours as legitimately established, and, 
" in order that it may daily increase, 
opens the treasures of the Church to its 
members who shall perform the devo- 
tions recommended by the rule." These 
indulgences are also applicable to the 
souls in Purgatory. Indulgences, both 
plenary and partial, had been accorded 
by His Holiness Pius IX. in 1847, 1848, 
and 1876. 

With this high sanction the confra- 
ternity has been erected in the United 
States. 

This work, w T hich now we recommend 
to the devout lovers of Jesus Christ, will 
fully, though briefly, explain the end of 
the devotion to the Holy Face of our 
Lord. By exciting in our souls a 



Preface. 13 

stronger personal love to our Redeemer 
it will lead us to a life more in union 
with Him. His blessed Face, which re- 
presents to us not only all the sorrows 
which He endured for our salvation, but 
also all the sweetness of His Sacred 
Heart, will be before us to attract us 
more powerfully day by day. It will 
wean us from sin, from the love of the 
world, and even from our own foolish 
pride. Then, with true loyalty, we will 
be able to make reparation to Him by 
deeds and words which love prompts 
and sanctifies. If there be a blessed 
work on earth, it is that of reparation. 
If there be an affection which can have 
complete power over the heart and intel- 
ligence, it is the love of our dearest Lord 
and Saviour. We are convinced that the 
devotion to the Holy Face will be the 
means of sanctifying many souls, and 
that it is especially suitable to the 



14 Preface, 

needs of our day. The great Master 
and Teacher of holiness will accom- 
plish much in us, if we will only seek 
to live in His sight and obey the mo- 
tions of His grace. May Pie, of His in- 
finite mercy, deign to show us the light 
of His countenance, and to look with 
love and blessing upon our feeble efforts 
to extend His reign in the hearts of 
men ! 

T. S. P. 

New York, April 12, 1885. 



author's preface. 




[HIS little book has long been 
earnestly desired. Friends of 
the Carmelites and readers of 
the Life of Sister Saint-Pierre, written 
by herself, have asked an abridgment 
of it which should be the counterpart 
of our notice on M. Dupont and the 
Work of the Holy Face. In respond- 
ing to this desire we have neglected no- 
thing which could render this pious his- 
tory interesting and popular, and at the 
same time make it serve as a means of 
propagating the Holy Work of Repara- 
tion. In this we believe we are obey- 
ing the orders of our Lord transmitted 

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16 Authors Preface. 

to his servant. " The Lord," says she, 
" asks of France a Work of Reparation 
which will be for her the rainbow of 
mercy. Ah ! if it were extended to all 
the dioceses, all the cities, I would be 
without uneasiness, for God is faithful 
to his promises. ... I have always said, 
and I still repeat it : it is this which is 
to disarm the justice of God and sa/oe 
France. Happy if they know how to 
profit by this means of salvation ! " 

A pious and eloquent layman recently 
said : " The social edifice is falling into 
ruins. Humanly s]3eaking, nothing can 
sustain it. Perhaps you rely on God ? 
On God ! — as individuals, granted ; but as 
a nation? Has not France driven him 
from her government, her laws, her 
morals ? On God ! when everywhere his 
Name is blasphemed ? On God ! when 
his day is profaned and his Church at- 
tacked? All that is happening to us, 



Author's Preface. 17 

is it not the expression of his just an- 
ger ? Is it not precisely this anger that 
is first to be appeased ? In truth, this 
accomplished, salvation becomes possible ; 
'for if God is for us who shall be against 
us f ' Now, the sure means of softening 
his anger, and consequently the great 
means of salvation — the one which God 
himself, before reducing us to extremi- 
ties, has deigned to recommend — is Repa- 
ration." * 

O you who love the Church and France, 
read, and from the teachings of the pious 
Carmelite of Tours learn in what consists 
this Reparation, and, in acting upon it, 
what you have to do. P. Janvier. 

Festival op the Finding op the Holt Cross, 
May 3, 1882. 

* Allocution of General Foloppe, November 12, 1881. 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 




CHAPTER I. 

HER YOUTH. 

jjT is to Catholic Brittany, strong in 
faith and great in heroic virtues, 
that we are indebted for having 
given us Marie de Saint-Pierre. She 
was born at Rennes on the 4th of October, 
1816. At her baptism she was given the 
same patrons as her father and mother — 
St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and St. 
Francis of Assisium : Frangoise-Perrine 
being derivatives of these names. Her 
father, Pierre Elnere, was a locksmith by 
profession. He married Frangoise Portier, 
who bore him twelve children. This 
couple were fervent Christians. The fa- 

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20 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

ther daily assisted at Mass, every even- 
ing visited the Blessed Sacrament, and 
during the day still found time to pray. 
He early taught his little daughter the 
practice of the Way of the Cross, and the 
mother instilled in her a tender devotion 
to the Blessed Virgin. Little Perrine was 
often sick and had a disposition difficult 
to manage. But, thanks to the guidance 
of her pious parents, she early learned to 
govern it and to overcome her faults. 
From childhood she had a deep abhorrence 
of sin, and bitterly reproached herself for 
the slightest imperfections. Her eldest 
sister, finding her one day in tears, asked 
her the cause of them. "I weep for my 
sins," she artlessly answered. 

Another day a poor blind man, miser- 
ably dressed, passed before the house. He 
had lost his way, and paused at the corner 
of the street, waiting for some charitable 
hand to set him right. A secret instinct 
warned the child that here was an occa- 
sion to curb her pride and self-love. Sud- 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 21 

denly darting out, she took his arm, and, 
giving him her hand, she led him whither 
he wished to go. Whenever anything 
disagreeable happened to her she check- 
ed her impatience, saying : " My God ? I 
offer thee this in expiation for my sins." 
She had such a dread of evil that, hav- 
ing at the age of eight years an uneasi- 
ness respecting a little story-book that 
had been loaned to her, she carried it to 
her parish priest and asked his advice. 
When she learned from him that, without 
being bad, it was a frivolous book, she 
immediately returned it without having 
read the first page. The remembrance 
of the sufferings of our Lord deeply af- 
fected her. She thought her sins the 
cause of his sorrows and pains ; confused 
and contrite, she would say : " O my 
Saviour! didst thou see even then, dur- 
ing your Passion, that I would one day be 
converted and belong entirely to thee?" 
She often made the Way of the Cross, 
kissing the earth at each Station. But 



22 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

her chief attraction was mental prayer. 
At first, not knowing the method, she 
recited her prayers with great attention, 
waiting till God should make known to 
her this holy exercise. She had not long 
to wait. When she was but ten years 
old she heard a sermon on the subject 
which shed a bright light on her mind 
and heart, and soon made her proficient 
in this science of the saints. 

At twelve years of age she lost her 
mother. Like St. Teresa at the same 
age and under similar circumstances, she 
ran in her wild grief to Mary, threw her- 
self at her feet, and implored her to be 
a mother to her in the place of the one 
that had been taken from her. The 
Queen of Heaven adopted, in fact, this 
innocent soul, and gave her through all 
her life sensible proofs of her maternal 
care. As her father was burdened with 
a large family, he confided her to the 
care of two aunts, who were persons of 
great piety. They kept a large store for 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 23 

the sale of seamstresses' work, and had a 
number of young women in their em- 
ploy. There Perrine made new progress 
in virtue, was a model to her companions, 
and even to several of them became a 
preceptress of the Interior Life, striving 
to make them love and practise mental 
prayer, in order to be more united to 
God. She seized every opportunity of 
devoting herself to works of mercy, such 
as succoring the poor and visiting and 
assisting the dying. ISTear to Mr. El- 
nere's house a poor family came to live, 
consisting of three members — the father 
(a day-laborer), his blind wife, and a little 
boy four or five years old. The young 
girl looked upon them as the image of 
the Holy Family of Bethlehem. She 
conceived for them a great affection, and 
6pared no care to relieve their poverty ; 
she often visited them, instructed them 
in their religion, made them approach 
the Sacraments, and, when there was any 
disturbance, restored peace in the house- 



24 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

hold. Soon after she devoted herself to 
nursing a poor young woman, who died 
in her arms. Receiving her last sigh, 
she hesitated not with her own hands to 
prepare her for burial, notwithstanding 
the fear she had of death, and to which 
she had never before been in such close 
proximity. 

For a moment, however, this soul so 
pure was on the point of being seduced 
by the frivolities of the world. She at 
first relaxed her fervor and had the mis- 
fortune to make a few concessions to 
vanity. God, in love and mercy, pun- 
ished her. Pressed by remorse, and hav- 
ing, as a member of the confraternity, to 
prepare herself for a festival of the Bless- 
ed Yirgin, she undertook to make a good 
and serious retreat. She then felt the in- 
terior workings of grace, and came forth 
from these exercises completely changed, 
resolved more than ever to live for God 
alone. The desire for a religious life 
which she had already experienced de- 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 25 

veloped itself strongly in her heart. It 
was the sole object of her thoughts, of 
her burning desires. For this end she 
imposed fasts on herself and made pil- 
grimages in honor of the Blessed Virgin 
and St. Joseph. She also addressed her- 
self to St. Martin, the illustrious Bishop 
of Tours, for whom she had a great de- 
votion, supplicating him to receive her 
as a religious in his diocese, though' she 
did not then know that any Carmelites 
were there. 

Still she was agitated by perplexities. 
Her confessor, who was a man of God, 
wished to test her vocation. For five 
years he made her undergo numerous and 
painful humiliations. At the end of this 
time she was inspired to make a pilgrim- 
age to a celebrated chapel of the Holy 
Virgin in the vicinity of Eennes — Our 
Lady of La Peiniere. There she clearly 
perceived that God called her to serve 
him by the practice of religious vows. 
All her yearnings drew her towards Car- 



26 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

mel, while her confessor appeared desirous 
she should enter the order of the Hospi- 
tal Sisters. But as she was returning 
from her pilgrimage our Lord, after Holy 
Communion, made her interiorly hear 
these words : " My daughter, I love you 
too much to abandon you longer to your 
perplexities. You will not he a Hospi- 
taliere, hut a Carmelite" The interior 
voice repeated this several times, "You 
will he a Carmelite " / and she believed 
the last time was added, " Carmelite at 
Tours" In the meantime her confessor, 
without informing her of the fact, had 
proposed her as an applicant. Therefore 
what was her astonishment and joy when 
she heard him say : " My daughter, you 
are received among the Carmelites " ! 
She left Rennes on the 11th of Novem- 
ber, 1839, under the auspices of St. Mar- 
tin, whom she had not uselessly invoked. 
Her virtuous father accompanied and pre- 
sented her himself. She was then twen- 
ty-three years of age. 




CHAPTER IL 

HER MISSION. 

JN the Carmelite convent Perrine 
gratefully felt she was in her 
proper place. The fire of di- 
vine love filled her soul. From the first 
her companions recognized in her a solid 
judgment united with a cheerful, equa- 
ble disposition ; she was reserved and 
very discreet ; she shunned all self-seek- 
ing and singularity; her modesty, morti- 
fication, and obedience were most exem- 
plary. The candor and tranquillity of 
her face mirrored the innocence and se- 
renity of her soul. A sweet simplicity 
characterized this elevated nature, as may 
be judged by the following trait. 

On the day of her arrival, during the 

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28 Sister Saint- Pierre. 

hour of recreation, she was invited to 
sing. Without waiting to be urged, she 
at once began to sing a canticle which, 
she says, "I had sung in advance while 
awaiting the fortunate day of my entrance 
into Carmel ; it commences with these 
words : ' Blessed be God, I am in a re- 
fuge.' . . . They were composed of some 
fifteen stanzas, and 1 sang them in so 
joyous a manner that no one thought of 
interrupting me." The new-comer did 
not seem disposed to leave one stanza un- 
sung, when suddenly the Mother-Prioress, 
at first absent, came in. Finding one sing- 
ing and the others attentively listening, she 
judged it a fitting opportunity for giving 
the new postulant her first trial. " In- 
deed, you have been in a hurry," said she 
to the latter, "to show off your little 
talent ! " An embarrassing silence fol- 
lowed, which was broken only when the 
Mother-Prioress turned to the singer and 
said : " Let us see if you know any 
more." "Oh! yes, Reverend Mother," 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 29 

she answered; "I have kept the best 
for you." And without betraying the least 
annoyance or ill-nature, she began anew. 
They knew then that the little girl from 
Brittany, by virtue and temperament, was 
not one ready to take offence or be easily 
depressed ; that she possessed the cheer- 
fulness which St. Teresa held as one of 
the proofs of a vocation to Carmel. 

Her first interior attraction was a ten- 
der devotion to the Divine Infancy of 
Jesus. " I looked on myself," she says, 
" as a little servant of the Holy Family, 
and consecrated myself to them in that 
capacity." She mentions having still 
another ambition, w T hich, with a charming 
candor, she thus explains : " The Reverend 
Mothers were making their annual retreat, 
and during that time the postulants and 
novices took their recreation in the no- 
vitiate. One evening during recreation, 
when we were all collected before a pic- 
ture of the Holy Family, I proposed to 
make a little Bethlehem for the Holy 



30 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

Family, each of us to especially conse- 
crate ourselves to serve it in the capacity 
of that beast of burden which should fall 
to her lot ; for instance, one would repre- 
sent the ass, another the ox, and so on. 
The proposal was unanimously adopted.*' 
The lots were drawn, and, to her great 
satisfaction, she was chosen to represent 
the ass of the Infant Jesus. " Thus," 
she says, "I was his ass in prayer, striv- 
ing to warm him by my love ; and his 
little servant in my actions, imagining 
myself in the house of Nazareth, and 
performing as if for the Holy Family all 
the daily duties of my state of life." 

She was inspired to honor the Infant 
Jesus each day of the month by meditat- 
ing, one after another, 'on the different 
mysteries of this period of his life. Thus 
the thoughts of the Divine Child fol- 
lowed her in all her actions, and rendered 
every occupation easy and agreeable. 

On the 8th of June, 1841, she made her 
profession. To the names which she had 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 31 

borne since her novitiate, and which placed 
her under the protection of the Queen of 
Angels and the Chief of the Apostles, her 
devotion for the Holy Family suggested 
an additional title. Henceforth Perrine 
Elnere will be known as Sister Marie de 
Saint-Pierre of the Holy Family. 

The Prioress of the Carmelites of Tours 
at this time was Mother Marie of the 
Incarnation, a religious as eminent fa' 
her prudence as for her exalted virtues. 
She at once employed the newly-profess- 
ed in different manual labors, and after- 
wards gave her the office of portress. 
This office, so contrary to her natural in- 
clinations, was the means Providence used 
to elevate her to the highest degree of 
perfection. The pious Sister dreaded its 
duties, fearing she would not be able to 
unite with them the spirit of recollection 
which was so dear to her. Respectfully 
she made known to the Reverend Mother- 
Prioress her distaste and fears ; notwith- 
standing which the Mother-Prioress re- 



32 Sister Saint-Pierre. 1 

tained her in this employment, and she 
kept it all her life. This disposition was 
providential; for thus the humble daugh- 
ter of the cloister in the performance of 
her duties frequently found herself in 
relation with pious secular persons who 
later on were not slow to aid her in her 
Work of the Reparation. 

This mission, for which, during the four 
years she had been in the convent, grace 
was secretly preparing her, was to be 
conferred on her by our Lord himself. 
It was the 26th of August, 1843, the day 
after the Feast of Saint Louis, King of 
Prance ; in the evening the Sister was 
meditating at the foot of the cross, when 
the Saviour said to her: 

"I have heard your sighs; I have seen 
the desire you have to glorify me. My 
Name is everywhere blasphemed ; even the 
children blaspheme! This frightful sin 
more deeply than all others wounds my 
Divine Heart / by blasphemy the sinner 
scorns me to my face, openly attaclcs me, 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 33 

annihilates my Redemption, and pronoun- 
ces his own condemnation and judgment. 
Blasphemy is an impoisoned arrow which 
wounds my Heart continually. 1 will 
give you a Golden Arrow, that with the 
delicious wounds of love you may heal 
the wounds of malice which sinners give 
me" And lie dictated to her the follow- 
ing formula: "May the most sacred, 
most adorable, most incomprehensible, and 
most ineffable Name of God be praised, 
blessed, loved, adored, and glorified in 
heaven, on earth, and in hell, by all the 
creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart 
of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy 
Sacrament of the Altar. Amen." 

Such was the Golden Arrow that the 
Lord gave to his servant, assuring her 
that every time she repeated this formula 
of praise she would wound his Heart 
with a wound of love. "Be watchful of 
this favor," said he to her ; u I shall ask 
of you an account of it." At that mo- 
ment it seemed she beheld issuing from 



34 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

the Sacred Heart of Jesus, wounded by 
this arrow, torrents of graces for the con- 
version of sinners, which inspired her 
.with confidence to say : " My Lord, dost 
thou then give me charge of blasphemers ? " 
She did not fail to make known all 
this to the Mother-Prioress, who, being as 
prudent as she was experienced, wished 
to prove and assure herself it was not an 
illusion. She consulted pious and learned 
ecclesiastics, and closely watched the con- 
duct of the Sister. Far from encourag- 
ing her in this extraordinary way, she en- 
deavored to turn her from it. She even 
forbade her to recite certain prayers which 
had been recommended. But several in- 
cidents which she could not but look 
upon as miraculous — among them her 
own cure, obtained by the prayers of the 
Sister in accordance with the order of 
our Lord, and in the manner he himself 
willed — decided her to relax her severity 
towards her and to permit her at least 
to say the prayers of Separation. 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 35 

Our Lord continued to reiterate his 
orders to his servant. The poor Sister 
would sometimes exclaim : " Ah ! if the 
Divine Master could suffer bitterness, he 
would be sorrowful unto death on behold- 
ing men, instead of making up for their 
insufficiency by uniting themselves to him 
and thus glorifying our Heavenly Father, 
continually blaspheming his holy Name 
and united with Lucifer and his repro- 
bates. How satisfied, on the contrary, he 
would feel to see at least a few faithful 
and grateful children joined to him to 
love and bless the Name of that Father 
whom he so tenderly loves ! " 

This view of the question brought her 
to make a heroic act of entire abandon- 
ment. "I feel myself," she says, "in- 
teriorly urged to make to God the sacri- 
fice of my whole being and all the merits 
which I can acquire." But she submis- 
sively awaited the consent of her Prior- 
ess. 

On the festival of St. John of the 



36 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

Cross, one of the patrons of Carmel, our 
Lord made Ids spouse hear these momen- 
tous words : " Till now I have only 
shown you in part the designs of my 
Heart, but to-day I wish to show you 
them in their entirety. The earth is 
covered with crimes. The violation of 
the first three Commandments of God 
has irritated my Father y the holy Name 
of God blasphemed, and the holy day of 
the Lord profaned, fill the measure of 
iniquities. These sins have mounted to 
the throne of God and provoked his 
wrath, which will soon burst forth if his 
justice is not appeased. At no time have 
these crimes ascended so high. 1 desire, 
with an ardent desire, that there be form- 
ed an association, well approved and or- 
ganized, to honor the Name of my Father" 
Here the object of the Work of Re- 
paration is clearly indicated : it is to re- 
pair the violation of the first three pre- 
cepts of the Decalogue, which include 
all crimes that have a special character 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 37 

of hostility against God and the profana- 
tion of the Lord's day. 

Amazed and confused, the humble 
.daughter of Carmel hesitated. But our 
Lord said to her : " Take good care ; for 
if, wanting in simplicity, you put ob- 
stacles to my designs, you will be re- 
sponsible for the salvation of many souls ; 
if, on the contrary, you are faithful, they 
will embellish your crown." In conclu- 
sion lie said : " And to wiiom should I 
address myself, if not to a Carmelite, 
whose very vocation enjoins on her the 
duty of unceasingly glorifying my Name?*' 

Thirteen days after, on the eve of the 
Immaculate Conception (7th of Decem- 
ber), the Blessed Saviour returned to the 
same subject, and this time the culpable 
nation is named. He made the Sister 
see how greatly he was incensed against 
France on account of her blasphemies. 
" He lias declared to me," she says, " that 
he cannot longer dwell in this France, 
which, like a viper, tears the bowels of 



38 Sister Saint-Pierre, 

his mercy. He still patiently bears the 
contempt shown himself, but the out- 
rages committed against his Eternal Fa- 
ther provoke his wrath. France has 
sucked unto blood the paps of his mercy ; 
this is why justice will now take the 
place of mercy, and his wrath burst forth 
with greater fury for having been longer 
delayed. Filled with terror, I trembling- 
ly said : ' My Lord, permit me to ask if 
this Reparation which thou desirest be 
made, wilt thou yet pardon France ? ' 
He answered me: 4 I will pardon her 
once more; but, mark well, once. As 
this crime of blasphemy extends over the 
whole kingdom, and as it is public, so 
also must the Reparation be public and 
extend to all her cities. Woe to those 
who will not make this Reparation!'" 

What Frenchman's heart could hear 
unmoved warnings so severe, so solemn ? 
The reproach, alas ! is but too well merit- 
ed, for the crime is evident and incon- 
testable. Everywhere among us do we 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 39 

hear incessantly uttered with impunity 
that blasphemy designated by our Lord 
to his servant as a frightful sin. France 
is pronounced the most guilty of all na- 
tions, because she is the most highly fa- 
vored by Heaven, the most loved of 
Christ, and the eldest daughter of the 
Church. Having become in Europe the 
principal centre of the spirit of revolur 
tion by the practical atheism she pro- 
fesses in her laws and government, she 
exerts in regard to blasphemy a kind of 
universal proselytism, as baneful to in- 
dividuals as it is to society. Is it aston- 
ishing, then, that she is especially threat- 
ened with the strokes of Divine Justice? 
After receiving this communication Sis- 
ter Marie de Saint-Pierre, as we learn 
from one of the other Carmelites, came 
from the choir in a state difficult to de- 
scribe. She was deathly pale and bathed 
in tears ; her countenance, usually so 
cheerful, bore an impress of suffering 
which it long retained. She appeared as 



40 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

if crushed, annihilated beneath the weight 
of divine wrath. 

In the midst of her anguish a great 
consolation was vouchsafed her. She 
learned that the Sovereign Pontiff, Gre- 
gory XVI., had, by a brief dated August 
8, 1843, permitted the establishment of 
pious Confraternities for the Extirpation 
of Blasphemy. "I no longer doubted," 
she says, "that the work entrusted to 
me came from God. What particularly 
struck me and awakened my admiration 
was the following happy coincidence in 
this manifestation of Divine Providence : 
On the 8th of August the Sovereign 
Pontiff issued Ms brief at Rome, and on 
the 26th of the same month, and in the 
same year, the day after the festival of 
Saint Louis, our Lord revealed to an ob- 
scure little Carmelite this great Work in 
Reparation for blasphemy with which he 
wished to enrich France as a means of 
salvation, to snatch her from the hands 
of his offended and irritated justice." 



CHAPTER III. 



HER REVELATIONS OK THE REPARATION. 




N" Cliristmas night of 1843, hav. 
ing obtained the permission of 
her Superiors, the Sister made, 
according to the reiterated demands of 
our Lord, "an act placing all her merits 
in the ha^ds of the Most Holy Infant 
Jesus." As a reward she was favored 
with still more abundant lights and 
graces. " It seems," she says, " that I 
hear Jesus from the depths of the taber- 
nacle addressing us these words : ' O ye 
my friends and faithful children, behold 
if there be any sorrow like unto mine! 
My Divine Father and my spouse, the 
holy Church, the delight of my Heart, 

41 



42 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

are despised and outraged by my enemies. 
Will no one rise up . to console me by 
defending them against those who attack 
them? I can no longer remain in the 
midst of this ungrateful people. Behold 
the torrent of tears that flow from my 
eyes ! Can I find none to wipe them 
away by making reparation to the glory 
of my Father and imploring the conver- 
sion of the guilty ? ' Ah ! " cries the 
pious Sister, "if a king, or even his am- 
bassador, be treated with indignity by a 
foreign power, how quickly the whole na- 
tion rushes to arms to avenge the insult! 
Troops are mustered, and the death of 
numberless soldiers is accounted as no- 
thing. And yet the holy and terrible 
ISTame of the God of hosts, of the King 
of kings, is despised and blasphemed, his 
day is profaned by sinners in infinite 
numbers, and no one is troubled thereat, 
no one thinks of Reparation. Behold, our 
Lord Jesus, the Envoy and Son of the 
God of armies, the Ambassador of the 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 43 

kingdom of heaven, demands a Repara- 
tion of honor to his Eternal Father, or 
■war will be declared against us and 
France will suffer the chastisements of 
his wrath. "Will we pause to weigh the 
matter ? Will we hesitate in our choice ? " 
The Archbishop of Tours, who at that 
time was Mgr. Morlot, wished to see 
and examine the* writings of the Carmel- 
ite. We say her "writings," because the 
Mother-Prioress had required her to write 
all her revelations. The prelate approved 
in this regard the wisdom of her Supe- 
riors, and authorized Rev. Pierre Aile- 
ron, Superior of the Carmelites, and at 
the same time pastor of Notre Dame La 
Riche, to establish in his parish an Asso- 
ciation for the Reparation of Blasphemy. 
This was on the model of the one in 
Rome, approved by Gregory XVI. Au- 
gust 8, 1843. Its members were thus 
enabled to gain the numerous spiritual 
advantages granted to the Roman asso- 
ciation. The permission of Mgr. Morlot 



44 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

is dated March 15, 1844. The associa- 
tion, on being established, took for its 
patrons St. Michael the Archangel, St. 
Louis, King of France, and St. Martin. 
Those that belonged to it were to recite 
daily a jPater, Ave, Gloria, and the 
Golden Arrow before mentioned. 

This, without doubt, was something — 
a first step towards the iW'ork of Repara- 
tion. But more was required — namely, 
an archconfraternity similar to that of 
Our. Lady of Victory for the Conversion 
of Sinners. The Sister was very sorrow- 
ful. They saw her coming from her 
prayers pale, trembling, and bathed in 
tears. She continually offered herself in 
sacrifice to turn away the* divine scourges 
and obtain the salvation of her country. 
On learning that the usual prayer of St. 
Denis was " Give me souls ! " she un- 
ceasingly repeated it, and begged the Sis- 
ters to do the same. In the meantime 
the Divine Master revealed to her more 
and more the enormity of blasphemy. 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 45 

" Yon cannot understand," He said to her 
one day, "the malice and abomination of 
this sin. If my justice were not re- 
strained by my mercy it would instantly 
crush the guilty, and all creatures, even 
inanimate ones, would rise up to avenge 
my outraged honor." " After this," the 
Sister adds, " he showed me the excel- 
lence of the Work of Reparation ; how 
it surpasses all other devotions, is agree- 
able to God, to the angels, the saints, 
and is useful to the Church. Ah ! if 
you knew the degree of glory you ac- 
quire in making but a single act of Re- 
paration for blasphemy, in saying only 
once, in the spirit of Reparation, ' Ad- 
mirable is the Name of God ' ! " 

She again wrote : " This work is with- 
in me as a consuming fire. I continu- 
ally beg our Lord to deign to save France ; 
to establish in all her cities his "Work of 
Reparation, and to raise up apostolic men 
for this end. Thou seest, my sweet 
Jesus, that I, a poor unworthy creature, 



46 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

can do nothing ; vouchsafe, then, to en- 
lighten the heart of him who can render 
thee this service with the knowledge of 
all that I suffer.' 5 

The Carmelites, forced to leave their 
monastery, lived for two years in a secu- 
lar dwelling where cloister enclosure was 
almost impossible. Sister Saint-Pierre, still 
in her office . of portress of the interi- 
or, had much to suffer. But our Lord, 
in the very midst of the embarrassments 
and distractions of her charge, consoled 
her with new and consoling lights. In 
her great desire to comfort and strength- 
en those who came to her with their 
sorrows, she was inspired to communi- 
cate to them the devotion of the Gospel 
of the Circumcision, and of the Holy 
Name. Thus she writes of this devo- 
tion : " The demon uses all possible 
means to snatch from our Lord Jesus 
Christ the inheritance purchased by the 
cross, and he is ever seeking to rob this 
Good Shepherd of the lambs obtained at 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 47 

so great a price. To put this ravishing 
wolf to flight Jesus has made known to 
me that he wishes his sheep marked with 
his Holy Name, by bearing on their per- 
son the Gospel which announces to all na- 
tions that the Incarnate Word was named 
Jesus. This amiable Saviour has ac- 
quainted me with the virtue of his Sa- 
cred Name — that it would drive away 
the demon, and that all those placing 
themselves under its special protection 
would receive great graces." Her supe- 
riors permitted her to distribute printed ■ 
sheets of this Gospel on which was 
stamped an image of the Infant Jesus. 
To this was added a piece of the palm 
blessed on Palm Sunday. These sheets 
were folded and enclosed in a little 
square sachet, marked upon the outside 
with the Sacred Heart and the instru- 
ments of the Passion. It was to be worn 
on the person in the same way as a 
medal attached to a scapular, etc. The 
pious Carmelite had thus in view the glo- 



48 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

rification of the Name of Jesus. Nu- 
merous graces came to confirm her faith 
and make her rejoice in the devotion. 
Every one wished to have these little 
sachets. On the sheets, beneath the Gos- 
pel, these words were inscribed : 

" When Jesus was named, 
Satan, vanquished, was disarmed." 

" Our Lord has revealed to me," says 
the Sister, "how glorious it is to him to 
have his victory celebrated by these 
words, for they make the demon tremble 
with rage ; that he will bless all who 
wear this Gospel, and will defend them 
against the attacks of Satan. 55 (See p. 202.) 

On the 17th of June, 1845, the Divine 
Master resumed his great design, and 
encouraged his servant to address the 
archbishop personally. The prelate very 
kindly visited the holy Carmelite, whose 
virtues he held in the highest esteem. 
Ushered into his presence, she knelt, 
kissed his feet, and humbly asked him 



Sister Saint- Pierre. 49 

to deign to accomplish the work he had 
so happily begun in authorizing the As- 
sociation of Notre Dame La Riche; and 
she disclosed to him how strongly our 
Lord had urged her to request the official 
establishment of the Work of Reparation 
in the metropolis of Tours, formerly the 
centre of so many graces for France. 
In the kindest manner the prelate an- 
swered: "" My child, with all my heart I 
desire to establish the work and give it 
all necessary and well- deserved publicity ; 
but there are obstacles in the way which 
are difficult to overcome. It is a hard 
task for us to incite our people to follow 
the ordinary practices of piety. Might 
not the proposal of new and additional 
devotions provoke the wicked to still 
greater blasphemy % " Nevertheless he 
reassured her by declaring he saw in her 
revelations no stamp of illusion, but re- 
cognized in them the seal of God; and 
he exhorted her to still pray and solicit 
new light on the subject. He permitted 



50 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

her to recite the prayers of Reparation, 
and some time after accorded permission 
to have them printed. He also approved 
of a little book on blasphemy entitled 
Collection of Prayers, followed by " Little 
Office of the Holy Name of God," com- 
posed by M. Dupont. 

"This little book," says the Sister, 
" authorized by the archbishop, at once 
became very popular, and by this • means 
in a short time more than twenty-five 
thousand Prayers of the Reparation were 
distributed. Tours received numberless 
applications for them from persons in 
various cities who wished to propagate 
this devotion to the Holy Name of God, 
and everywhere they were recited with 
the greatest fervor. Our Lord revealed 
to me that this new harmony appeased 
his wrath, but that he still wished to 
have an association established such as 
he had demanded." 



CHAPTER TV. 




HER REVELATIONS ON TEE HOLT FACE. 

BEYING- the archbishop's coun- 
sels, Sister Saint-Pierre began 
to pray with renewed fervor for 
greater light regarding the establishment 
of the Work of Reparation. But it pleased 
the Divine Master to lead his servant 
once more through the* path of interior 
trials. She was assailed with fears and 
doubts; terrible temptations met her at 
every turn ; all sensible consolations were 
withdrawn ; she felt that her soul had lost 
even sanctifying grace, and in her agony 
she hardly dared receive Holy Commu- 
nion. One day, while awaiting the hour 
of Mass, and hesitating as to whether 
she should approach the holy table, she 
thought that this Bread of the Strong 

51 



52 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

would infuse courage. She seized with 
renewed faith her crucifix, and, recalling 
to mind that Jesus had said that the Act of 
Praise called the Golden -Arrow delight- 
fully wounded his Heart, she pronounced 
this formula ten times in succession and 
resolved to receive Holy Communion in 
Reparation for blasphemy. Nothing more 
was needed to touch the Heart of the 
Heavenly Spouse. This fervent, loving 
soul was filled with consolations, and the 
Mystery of the Sorrowful Face of Christ 
was suddenly revealed to her. She felt 
herself transported in spirit to the road to 
Calvary. " There," she says, "our Lord 
vividly portrayed to me the pious act of 
Veronica, who with her veil wiped his 
most Holy Face, covered with spittle, 
dust, sweat, and blood. This Divine 
Saviour made . me understand that the 
impious at present, by their blasphemies, 
renewed the outrages formerly inflicted 
on his Holy Face. All the blasphemies 
hurled against the Divinity, whom they 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 53 

cannot reach, fall back, like the spittle 
of the Jews, upon the Face of our Lord, 
who has offered himself a victim for 
sinners. Then he told me I must imi- 
tate the zeal of the pious Veronica, who 
so courageously braved the crowd of his 
enemies to reach him, and he gave her 
to me as a protectress and model. By- 
promoting the Reparation for blasphemy 
we render him the same service as did 
this heroic Jewish woman, and he looks 
upon those who thus act with the same 
complacency as when he gazed upon her 
on his way to Calvary." All the purpose 
of the Reparation is here in the germ. 
We shall behold it developing in the suc- 
ceeding revelations. Henceforth the Sis- 
ter applied herself to rendering homage 
to the Holy Face. "I believe," she 
says, " I am under the special protection 
of the pious Veronica; I am continually 
occupied in adoring the August and Most 
Holy Face of the Divine Saviour. This 
Adorable Face is the mirror of the per- 



54 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

fections contained in the Most Holy Name 
of God." "I comprehended/' she says, 
"that as the Sacred Heart of Jesus is 
the sensible object offered to our adora- 
tion, to represent his boundless love in 
the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar; 
so in the Work of the Reparation our 
Lord's Face is the sensible object offer- 
ed to the adoration of the Associates, 
to atone for the outrages of blasphemers, 
who attack the Divinity, of which it is 
the mirror and expression. By virtue of 
this Adorable Face presented to the Eter- 
nal Father we can appease his just wrath 
and obtain the conversion of the impious 
and blasphemers." Our Lord favored his 
servant with still other lights. He made 
her comprehend that the Church is his 
mystical body, and religion the face of 
that body. u He then showed me," she 
says, u that this face is to-day a butt for 
the enemies of, his Holy Name ; and I 
saw, by means of this divine light, that 
the impious, by wicked words and bias- 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 55 

phemy against the Holy Name of God, 
spit upon the Saviour's Face and cover 
it with mud; that all the blows given to 
Holy Church and religion by sectarians 
are a renewal of the numerous buffets 
which the Holy Face of our Lord re- 
ceived, and that these wretches, in striv- 
ing to annul the infinite merits of its 
sufferings, cause, as it were, the sweat of 
this Most Holy Face." 

"After this vision," continues the Sis- 
ter, "the Blessed Saviour said to me: 'I 
seek Veronicas to wipe and honor my Di- 
vine Face, which has few adorers.' And 
he made me understand anew that all 
who would devote themselves to this 
Work of the Reparation would thereby 
perform the office of the pious Veroni- 
ca. After which he addressed me these 
words : ' I give you my Face as a recom- 
pense for the services you have rendered 
me. They are slight, it is true ; but your 
heart has conceived great desires. I 
therefore present you this gift in virtue 



56 Sister Saint- Pierre. 

of the Holy Ghost, in the presence of 
my Father, the angels and saints, through 
the hands of my Most Holy Mother and 
St. "Veronica, who will teach you in what 
manner it should be venerated.' He 
moreover added: 'By my Holy Face 
you will perform wonders.' " The Sister 
understood that this precious gift was 
not for herself alone ; that it was to be- 
come in the Work of Reparation a dis- 
tinctive sign and powerful means of ac- 
tion. But this grace was for her, after 
that of the Sacraments, the greatest she 
could receive. " Now," added the Lord, 
"if any do not recognize in this my 
work, it is because they close their eyes." 
"Two days after, having taken for the 
subject of my prayer," the Sister says, 
"the Betrayal of Judas, I sorrowfully 
considered the outrage the Face of our 
Lord had received in the kiss of his per- 
fidious disciple, and it seemed to me that 
the Divine Master invited me in a spirit 
of reparation to kiss most fervently the 



Sister Saint- Pierre. 57 

image of his Holy Face.* After obeying 
the inspiration I felt that this amiable Sa- 
viour willed to instruct me on the excel- 
lence of the gift he had presented me 
in his Adorable Face, and he had the 
goodness to accommodate himself to the 
feebleness of my mind by the follow- 
ing simple comparison : ' As in earth- 
ly kingdoms/ said he, 'one can obtain 
what he wills with coin stamped .with 
the king's effigy, so with the precious 
coin of my Sacred Humility, whose effigy 
is my Adorable Face, one can obtain in 
the kingdom of heaven all that he de- 
sires.' And he promised me, besides, that 
all who, by words, prayers, or writings, 
would defend his cause in this Work of 
Reparation, he would defend before his 
Father, and would give them his king- 
dom.' 3 

Succeeding these communications on 
the Holy Face, Sister Saint-Pierre had 
the next day an interior light on the 

* See Brief of Leo XIH. 



58 Sister Saint-Pierre, 

same subject, which she expressed in the 
following prayer : 

" Remember, O my sonl ! the instruc- 
tions which thy Heavenly Spouse has 
this day given thee concerning his Ador- 
able Face. Remember that the Divine 
Head represents the Eternal Father, who 
is unbegotten; that the mouth of this 
Holy Face represents the Divine Word, 
begotten of the Father; the two eyes, 
the reciprocal love of the Father and the 
Son, for these divine eyes have but one 
light, one identical knowledge, and pro- 
duce the one same love which represents 
the Holy Ghost. Contemplate in his 
flowing hair the infinite perfections of 
the Most Blessed Trinity. Behold in 
this majestic Head, precious portion «of 
the Sacred Humanity of the Saviour, the 
image of the Unity of God." 

A series of other communications soon 
came to unfold more clearly these con- 
soling truths. On the 3d of November, 
in order to show more plainly the pro* 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 59 

priety of the choice he had made of his 
Holy Face as the principal object of the 
Adoration, our Lord declares to Marie 
de Saint-Pierre that he gives it to her 
"to be wiped with her homages and per- 
fumed with her praises," and he adds : 
" According to the care you will take to 
make reparation to my Face, disfigured 
by blasphemy, will 1 take of your soul, 
disfigured by sin. I will reimprint my 
likeness irpon it, and make it as beautiful 
as when it came forth from the baptis- 
mal font. There are men skilled in re- 
storing health to the body, but I alone 
am the 'healer of souls,' I alone can re- 
new in them the image of God, effaced 
by sin." Hearing these words, the pious 
Sister in transports exclaimed : "I salute 
thee, I adore thee, and I love thee, O 
Adorable Face of Jesus, my Beloved, 
noble seal of the Divinity. With all the 
powers of my soul I apply myself to 
thee, and I most humbly pray thee to 
imprint in all of us thy image, disfigured 



60 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

by sin." " What a mystery of love ! " con- 
tinued our Carmelite. " Man is invited 
to repair the outrages made to his God, 
and in a loving return he promises to 
restore his image in our souls ! Let us, 
therefore, wipe the august Face of the 
Saviour, soiled with the spittle of blas- 
phemers, and he will wipe our soul, 
soiled with the spittle of sin," 



CHAPTEE V. 



HER PRAYERS FOR FRANCE. 




HE year 1846 had dawned upon 
the world, and yet there was no 
outward indication that the ar- 
dent wishes of Sister Saint-Pierre would 
be realized. On the 23d of January she 
was favored with a communication which 
she hastened in tears to make known to 
the Mother-Prioress. These are the fear- 
ful words the Divine Saviour used : " The 
face of France has become hideous in my 
Father's eyes, and she provokes his jus- 
tice. To obtain mercy for her, offer 
him the Face of his Son, in whom he 
takes complacency. Unless this be done 
she will feel the weight of his wrath in 

61 



62 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

well-merited chastisements. The Holy 
Face of her Saviour is her salvation. 
Behold the proof of my goodness to 
France, who only repays me with ingra- 
titude." Henceforth, docile and fright- 
ened, the pious Sister began to say this 
prayer, which she continually repeated: 

u Eternal Father, we offer thee the 
Adorable Face of thy well-beloved Son 
for the honor and glory of thy Holy 
iName and for the salvation of France." 

It was now with great anguish that 
she received new lights. Those warn- 
ings of God and the apparent impossi- . 
bility of seeing his commands obeyed 
filled her with sorrow and desolation. 
" My poor heart," she says, " is pierced 
by a sword of grief. Again has our 
Blessed Lord centred all the faculties of 
my soul upon his precious thorn-crowned 
Head and his Adorable Face, which is 
made a butt for the outrages of the ene- 
mies of God and. his Church. Again 
have I heard his sorrowful plaints, 'that 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 63 

< 

he seeks souls to atone for the outrages 
inflicted upon him, and to heal his Di- 
vine Wounds by applying to them the 
wine of compassion and the oil of cha- 
rity.' * 

Four days later the Divine Master 
made known to his servant that two per- 
sons had rendered him signal service dur- 
ing his Passion : the first, as already men- 
tioned, was the pious Veronica, who 
glorified his humanity by wiping His 
Adorable Face on the painful road to 
Calvary ; the second was the " good 
thief," who from his cross, as from a pul- 
pit, openly defended the Saviour's cause 
and confessed his divinity, blasphemed by 
the other thief and the hardened Jews. 
He presented both as models in the 
Work of Reparation — Veronica to those 
of her own sex who are called to defend 
his cause, not by preaching, but by wip- 
ing his Holy, August Face with the veil 
of prayer, praise, and adoration ; and the 
" good thief '* as the special model of men 



64 Sister Saint-Pierre, 

and the ministers of his Church, who are 
called upon to publicly defend the honor 
of God and to proclaim his glory before 
those by whom it is outraged. To St. 
Yeronica our Lord gave the impression 
of his divine features ; to the ' ' good 
thief" an immediate entrance into his 
celestial kingdom. And he promised 
the Sister to be no less munificent to 
those who by their "prayers, words, ado- 
rations, or writings defended his cause; 
he will defend their cause before his 
Father in heaven and give them his king- 
dom." And he enjoined her to make 
these promises known to all, adding : " If 
you keep these things hidden, without 
speaking of them, you will commit an 
injustice." In another communication the 
Lord urged her to offer herself as a vic- 
tim for the sins of France. " Pray for 
her," said he ; " immolate yourself for her. 
I give you anew my Face: offer it to 
my Father to appease his justice. Ah ! 
if you but knew its power, its virtue. 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 65 

And wherefore ? Because I have taken 
upon my Head all the sins of mankind, 
in order that my members may be spared. 
Therefore offer my Face to my Father, 
for this is the means of appeasing him." 
And he added: "I desire the Work of 
the Reparation ; rest assured it will be 
firmly established, but the fruit you bear 
is not yet matured." 

In the mission assigned to the daughter 
of Carmel we see the salvation of France 
closely linked with the "Work of Repara- 
tion ; hence for both our Lord offers the 
same exterior signs, the same efficacious 
means — namely, the cultus of his Ado- 
rable Face. Such is the subject of the 
following communication : " My daugh- 
ter, I take yon for my steward and anew 
place my Holy Face in your hands, that 
you may unceasingly offer it to my Fa- 
ther for the salvation of France. Use 
to advantage the divine talent which in 
my Holy Face I entrust to you. By so 
doing you will obtain the conversion of 



66 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

many sinners. Nothing that you ask in 
virtue of this offering will be refused 
you. Ah! if you but knew how pleas- 
ing to my Father is the sight of my 
Face." Again, displaying to her the 
boundless treasures of the infinite merits 
of his life and Passion, the loving Sa- 
viour added : " My daughter, I give you 
my Face and my Heart, I give you my 
Blood, I give you my "Wounds; draw 
from them and pour out upon others; 
buy freely, for my Blood is the price of 
souls. Oh ! what sorrow for my Heart to 
behold remedies which have cost me so 
dearly despised by men. Ask of my Fa- 
ther as many souls as I have shed drops 
of blood in my Passion." 

The prayers of Reparation seemed to 
the Sister a wall which protected France 
against the shafts of divine justice; a 
hundred times daily she offered to God 
the Adorable Face of Jesus. 

Another communication, made on the 
27th of January, 1847, binds together 



Bister Saint-Pierre. 67 

two excellent devotions which in the 
"Work of Reparation .occupy an essential 
place. " Our amiable Saviour," says the 
pious Carmelite, "has made me hear his 
sighs upon his unappreciated love in the 
Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar 
from the lack of faith among Christians, 
and he has happily bound my heart and 
mind at his feet, in order that I may 
bear him company in this abandonment 
by adoring his Most Holy Face hidden 
under the Eucharistic veil. Yes, it is 
by this august Sacrament that Jesus, 
our Saviour, wishes to communicate to 
souls the virtue of his Most Holy Face, 
which is there more dazzling than the 
sun. And he has promised me anew to 
imprint on the souls of those that honor 
it his Divine Likeness." 

Then suddenly our Lord gave to her 
mind a clear perception of the connec- 
tion existing between his Most Holy 
Name and His Adorable Face. "He 
made me understand," says she, "by a 



68 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

comparison as simple as it is appropriate, 
how the impious, by their blasphemies, 
attack his Adorable Face, while the 
faithful glorify it by the homage and 
praise they render to his Name and his 
Sacred Person. 

" Behold a man, distinguished for his 
name and merits, in the presence of his 
enemies ; they do not lift a hand against 
him, but they heap insults upon him, 
treat him with contempt, and call him 
by injurious epithets instead of the titles 
that justly belong to him. Observe now 
the face of this injured man ; does it 
not seem that all the opprobrious words 
uttered against him by his enemies are 
reflected there and make him suffer a 
veritable torment? See how his face 
burns with shame and confusion. Is not 
the ignominy inflicted upon it harder to 
bear than physical tortures in other parts 
of his body? This is a faint picture of 
the Face of our Lord outraged by the 
blasphemies of the impious ! 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 69 

" Let us represent to ourselves this 
same man in the presence of his friends, 
who, hearing of the insults he has received, 
hasten to console him by treating him 
according to his dignity, paying homage 
to the greatness of his name, and ad- 
dressing him by all the titles due his 
exalted rank ; does not the face of that 
man express the sweetness of these 
praises? Happiness rests upon his brow 
and beams on his radiant countenance, 
joy sparkles in his eyes, and a smile is 
on his lips. In a word, his faithful 
friends have cured the burning anguish 
of that Face outraged by his enemies ; 
glory has taken the place of opprobrium. 
This is what the friends of Jesus do 
by the Work of Reparation; the glory 
they render to his Name rests on his 
august brow and rejoices his Most 
Holy Face in a special manner in the 
Blessed Sacrament of the Altar." 

In our days the crimes which most 
outrage our Lord in his Sacrament^ 



70 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

spring from secret societies. They are 
designated to the Sister under the gene- 
ral name of Communists, as being the 
greatest enemies of the Church and 
France. " He has commanded me," she 
says, "to make war against these wicked 
men, who for the most part were born 
in that Church of which they are now 
the declared enemies. He has given me 
to combat them the arms of his Pas- 
sion, his Cross, and the other instru- 
ments of his tortures. i My daughter,' 
said he, 'they have dragged me from my 
Tabernacles, they have profaned my Sanc- 
tuaries and laid hands on the anoint- 
ed of the Lord. Have they not com- 
mitted the crime of Judas ? Have they 
not sold me for money? Let not this 
knowledge be without fruit. I make it 
known to you in order to animate you 
for the combat. March towards them 
with the simplicity of a child and the 
courage of a valiant soldier.' " And the 
virgin of the cloister repeated with thq 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 71 

prophet : " Let God arise and his ene- 
mies be dispersed, and let all that hate 
him flee from before his Face." 

This was in 1847. The governments 
of the period did not appear to be un- 
easy about the intriguing of these ene- 
mies of social order who have since over- 
turned^ thrones and brought confusion to 
Europe. " Alas ! " said the pious Carmel- ' 
ite, unable to restrain her tears, " days 
of wrath are approaching, and yet this 
Work of the Reparation, which I have 
borne for nearly four years under sor- 
rows that God, alone can know, has not 
appeared. O my God ! arise ; it is thy 
cause as well as ours ; we pray thee to 
defend France with the protection of thy 
Holy Face, and grant her mercy for the 
glory of thy Adorable Name. Yes, en- 
lightened from on high, I firmly believe 
that on this Work of Reparation depends 
the future of France. I see it always 
linked to France as the means of salva- 
tion that God in his infinite mercy has 



72 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

chosen for her. Wherefore I would give 
the last drop of my blood to obtain its 
establishment, for then the Lord would 
be appeased and innumerable souls would 
be saved/' 



CHAPTEE VI. 



THE ARCHCONFRATERNITT OF TEE RE- 
PARATION. 




HE 7th of March, 1847, our Lord 
said to his faithful servant : 
" Rejoice, my daughter ; the 
hour approaches when that most beautiful 
work under the sun is to appear." As 
the Sister was much troubled concerning 
the many obstacles to be overcome, the 
Divine Saviour said to her : " These ob- 
stacles are only the mist of a morning 
ushering in a fine day." 

A question rises here regarding the 
Work of Reparation through the Holy 
Face. Without doubt the Redemption 
wrought upon the Cross is, and always 
will be, the masterpiece of Divine Wis- 
dom and Divine Love; but the Repara- 

73 



74 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

tion asked by the Saviour of Marie de 
Saint-Pierre is so intimately, connected 
with the Eedemption of man, so identi- 
fied with the expiation of Calvary, that 
we may truly consider it an application of 
the same; and thus, notwithstanding the 
feebleness and linworthiness of the in- 
struments employed, it is in reality " the 
most beautiful of works, the most neces- 
sary for the needs of the age in which 
we live. ' 

The day, in fact, was fast approach- 
ing when this Work would be definitely 
established. 

The Confraternity not having been in- 
stituted at Tours in the manner the Lord 
wished, the Holy Virgin of La Salette, 
the 19th of September, came herself in 
person to begin it. Sister Saint-Pierre 
had solicited the intervention of Mary, 
and Mary, our merciful Mother, an- 
nounced it. " His grace," says Sister 
Saint-Pierre, " coming to no decision, I 
appealed to Mary. I clearly saw there 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 75 

was no hope but in her intercession ; 
daily I recited the chaplet to obtain the 
establishment of the Work. I longed to 
proclaim it throughout France and make 
known to my country the misfortunes 
which threatened her. Oh ! how I suf- 
fered in being the sole depositary of 
so important a thing ! " " Holy Vir- 
gin," she again exclaimed, "appear in 
the world, make known to some one 
that which has been communicated to 
me concerning France." When the pious 
Sister heard that the august Queen of 
Heaven had spoken to the little shep- 
herds of the Alps, JVlaximin and Melanie, 
in transports she cried : " O Yirgin Mo- 
ther of my God ! I thank thee for having 
given me these two little shepherds as 
sounding trumpets to echo from the 
mountain to the ears of France all that 
has been revealed to me in solitude." 
And again : " The voice of my dear lit- 
tle associates has been heard throughout 
the world. Let us pray, let us weep for 



76 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

our sins. The time is not far distant 
when France will be shaken to her foun- 
dations. But she will not be engulfed, 
if before the eyes of the Lord appears the 
Work of Reparation. She, who was to 
be utterly destroyed, will be only lightly 
ehastised." In fact, in less than a year 
after — and perhaps to this we owe our 
continued existence — the Work was ear- 
nestly begun. Mgr. Parisis, Bishop of 
Langres, having heard of the projected 
"Work, took a lively interest in forward- 
ing it as much as possible. His zeal for 
the Holy Name of God made him labor 
with much ardor for the establishment 
of the Association ; his efforts were crown- 
ed with success. He wrote to Mgr. Mor- 
lot, Archbishop of Tours, who, still judg- 
ing that it was not opportune to pro- 
nounce judgment, left the initiative of 
the Work to the Bishop of Langres, be- 
ing all the more willing to do this as 
Langres was his (Mgr. Morlot's) birth- 
place. A Confraternity of Reparation 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 77 

was then canonically established at St. 
Dizier in the church of St. Martin of 
Lanoue. Reverend M. l'Abbe Marche, its 
pastor, was sent to Rome to solicit, in 
behalf of the Association, the title of 
Arch confraternity, together with some 
indulgences. Pius IX. received the peti- 
tions with the most ardent enthusiasm, 
and it was on this occasion he made use 
of the words that have been so often 
quoted : " Reparation is a work destined 
to save society." He granted the re- 
quested indulgences, and by a brief 
dated July 30, 1847, raised the Asso- 
ciation of Reparation established at St. 
Dizier to the dignity of an Archcon- 
fraternity, with the right of aggregating 
throughout the Catholic world similar as- 
sociations ; and His Holiness requested 
that his name should be the first sub- 
scribed on the register of membership — 
a signal privilege, which was to be the 
seed of wonderful benedictions. 

The Confraternity of the Reparation 



78 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

answered so well the need of our times, 
and was so evidently the work of God, 
that from its very commencement it 
spread like a fire among dry reeds. 

Nevertheless it had for its centre only 
the second parish of a small town, in 
a. diocese far from the place where the 
communications had been made. Besides, 
the episcopal ordinance of Langres had 
made no mention of the cultus of the 
Holy Face indicated as the sensible ob- 
ject of the Reparation. Consequently, 
though the canonical erection of the 
Archconfraternity of the Reparation 
filled the pious Sister with joy, she yet 
said, "My heart is not entirely satisfied; 
for in this work the Church of Tours, 
the heritage of the great St. Martin, still 
remains inactive. When will it bring 
forth the fruit which has been conceived 
in its midst?' 5 

She was not to see the fulfilment of 
this legitimate desire ; her earthly pilgri- 
mage was drawing to a close. Still the 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 79 

future welfare of her country was ever 
before her, and she ceased not most ear- 
nestly to pray for its salvation. 

On the 2d of December our Lord 
appeared to her covered with wounds. 
u He made me," she says, "hear these 
sorrowful words : ' The Jews crucified me 
on Friday ; hut the Christians crucify 
me on Sunday. Ask them in my name, 
at least for this diocese of Tours, the 
establishment of the Work of Reparation, 
in order that my friends may embalm my 
Wounds by pious expiations and obtain 
mercy for the guilty. My daughter, the 
storm is already threatening, but I shall 
keep my promise if my wishes be ac- 
complished. Speak with humility and at 
the same time with holy liberty.' " 

The storm of which the Saviour spoke 
was indeed at hand. Two months later 
it was to burst forth in all its fury. 
This the Divine Master clearly announc- 
ed to his servant in a communication of 
the 13th of February. 



80 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

"Our Lord," she says, "has made 
known to me in these words the terrible 
woes impending over us : ' The Church is 
threatened with a fearful tempest Pray, 
pray ! ' It is impossible," she adds, " to 
describe the touching and impressive ac- 
cents with which this charitable Saviour 
said to me, ' Pray, pray ! ' " 

This prediction was, indeed, verified in 
1848, in the epoch usually called Days 
of February ', by an unexpected Eevolu- 
tion which hurled Louis Philippe from 
his throne, made France a Republic, and 
shook all Europe, particularly Pome, 
which Pius IX. was obliged to leave and 
seek refuge in Gaeta. 

The soul of the Sister was in anguish. 
" Ah ! " she cried, " the Lord has long 
asked of France a Work which would 
be for her a rainbow of mercy. Hap- 
pily, the work has been inaugurated, and 
its influence is being felt; but it is yet 
too feeble to arrest the wrath of the 
Omnipotent. Ah ! if it were but extend- 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 81 

ed to all the dioceses I should be with- 
out uneasiness, for God is faithful to his 
promises." She adds : " Oh ! how I wish 
to make known to all the bishops this 
consoling truth, and entreat them in this 
great crisis to aid in the "Work of Repa- 
ration. I have always said it, and I again 
repeat it : It is this Work which is to 
disarm the justice of God and save 
France and the world! Happy if they 
know how to profit by this means of sal- 
vation ! " 

" Nothing," she further says, " is more 
efficacious to disarm the irritated justice 
of God than to offer him this Most Holy 
Face, which has taken upon its Head the 
thorns of our sins, and has exposed itself 
to the strokes of that same justice. It 
has cancelled our debts, it is our secu- 
rity ; whence our amiable Saviour has 
commanded me, notwithstanding my un- 
worthiness, to keep myself constantly be- 
fore the throne of his Father, offering 
him this Divine Face, the object of his 



82 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

complacency. And this tender Saviour has 
made me the consoling promise : ' Every 
time you offer my Face to my Father I 
will open my Mouth to demand mercy.' 
The good Jesus has also promised to 
have pity on France. Let us, then, have 
great confidence ; his all-powerful Name 
will be our buckler, and his Adorable 
Face our rampart. And he made me 
also understand that he wished this devo- 
tion to his Adorable Face rapidly and 
widely extended. O good Jesus ! hide us 
in the secret of thy Holy Face, that it may 
be for us an impregnable tower, a fortress 
against the attacks of our enemies." One 
day after Holy Communion our Lord ap- 
peared in the interior of her soul as he 
is represented in the Ecce Homo. "He 
at first attracted my attention," she says, 
"'upon the contemplation of his Holy 
Face. Soon he directed it to the reed he 
held in his Hand, and presented it to me 
to combat the enemies of the Church, 
promising me they would feel my blows. 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 83 

He made me understand that this feeble 
reed was the figure of my soul. Yes, I 
am only a feeble reed, but in the Hand 
of Jesus Christ, my Spouse, becoming 
most powerful against his adversaries, I 
shall say with faith and confidence : i O 
malice of the demon, vanish before the 
reed of Jesus Christ ! ' 

"Eternal Father, I offer thee the Most 
Holy Face of Jesus. It is a mysterious 
coin of infinite value which alone can can- 
cel our debts. Eternal Father, I offer thee 
the Most Holy Face of Jesus to appease 
thy wrath. Remember it has borne the 
thorns of our sins, and the blows of thy 
justice, of which it still bears the marks. 
Behold those Divine Wounds of whose 
voice I wish to be the echo; they inces- 
santly cry, ' Mercy, mercy, mercy for sin- 
ners ! ' " 

With these words she bowed her face 
to the earth, saying, " Lord, I merit only 
hell ! " The Good Master answered : " I 
have applied to your soul the virtue of 



84 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

my Face, to restore therein the image of 
God. Those who will contemplate the 
wounds of my Face on earth shall one 
day contemplate it radiant with glory in 
heaven." 

" At that moment," says the Sister, " I 
was on Thabor and would fain have re- 
peated with the Apostle St. Peter : ' Lord, 
it is good to be here. Let us make three 
tabernacles for the three powers of my 
soul, that it may always enjoy this sweet 
repose which infinitely surpasses all the 
pleasures of earth.' But our Lord made 
me understand that his true spouses should 
prefer the heat of combat to the repose 
of contemplation, and should not shrink 
from throwing themselves into the con- 
flict to defend his glory." 

It was after these divine consolations 
that Marie de Saint-Pierre composed as 
by inspiration those beautiful invocations 
of the " Adorable Face of our Lord " im- 
properly called the "Litany." They are 
jets of light, cries of love, a kind of spir- 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 85 

itual poem to the glorification of the 
Holy Face, which she is pleased to con- 
sider under its different aspects — joyous, 
sorrowful, glorious, merciful, and terrible. 
At the end of her writings, in a hymn of 
thanksgiving, she particularly thanks our 
Lord "for having made her the gift of 
his Divine Face, so suitable to appease the 
justice of the celestial Father, and from 
which flows a precious Blood which as- 
sures us of eternal life." She adds : " O 
blessed, holy angels ! thank Jesus and Mary 
for me, who have heaped favors upon 
me, and draw me to heaven, in order 
that I may, notwithstanding my unworthi- 
ness, sing eternally with you a hymn of 
gratitude for all the graces I have receiv- 
ed from my God, and, above all, for the 
Work of Reparation which his mercy has 
established in France." 



CHAPTEE YII. 



HER YIBTUES. 



|T is time to speak a few words of 
the virtues of our dear revered 
Sister. We shall only mention 
those which were the most characteristic. 
Above all, she possessed charity in an 
eminent degree; the glory of God and 
the conversion and salvation of sinners 
w r ere the sole objects of her thoughts 
and the motive of all her actions. The 
loss of souls made so vivid an impression 
upon her that she could not repress her 
sorrow. More than once she was heard 
weeping and sobbing. Her tender and 
solid piety also inspired her with a great 
zeal to relieve the souls in purgatory, es- 
pecially those that were the most forlorn. 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 87 

Her heart expanded with love for our 
Lord; she honored his Sacred Humanity 
in all its mysteries, but those of his 
Birth and Hidden Life had for her in- 
expressible charms. Her devotion to the 
Divine Infancy and to the Holy Family 
was manifest on all occasions. Being 
Portress, it was a source of joy to her 
to open the door to carpenters, whose 
occupation reminded her of the labors 
of the childhood of Jesus and St. Jo- 
seph, One day a wagon drawn by an 
ass entered the courtyard of the mon- 
astery. Approaching the animal, the 
good Sister began to tenderly stroke it 
in remembrance of the service rendered 
Jesus and Mary by the humble beast 
in their flight into Egypt. At Christ- 
mas-time she testified her joy and piety 
in various ways; she contemplated with 
a radiant countenance the statue of the 
Infant Jesus in the Crib, took it in her 
arms, lighted tapers before it, and sang 
for the Divine J3abe her sweetest songs of 



88 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

praise ; sometimes, even, like David be- 
fore the Ark, she began to dance, invit- 
ing her companions in the Novitiate to 
do the same. The Mother-Prioress ex- 
pressed astonishment and warned her 
against dissipation. " Oh ! no, Reverend 
Mother," she answered. "I do it to 
honor the Infant Jesus, and to make 
amends for all the guilty dances that 
offend him." 

Her affections were also directed to 
Jesus in the Eucharist. In the choir, 
before the Blessed Sacrament, the ex- 
pression of her face, her manner, her 
looks, made it seem that, piercing the 
Eucharistic veil, she really saw Jesus 
on the altar. Quitting the sanctuary, 
she left there her heart ; and in whatever 
part of the house she happened to be, 
she turned towards it, transported with 
joy when she could catch a glimpse of 
the altar. She had attained to a rare de- 
gree of humility. She sincerely believed 
herself the least in the community, the 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 89 

most miserable, an unworthy sinner, and 
reproached herself for the slightest im- 
perfections as if they were grave faults. 
One day a Sister found her weeping and 
asked the cause. Sister Saint-Pierre re- 
minded her of a fault she had committed 
the day previous in her presence. The 
Sister assured her she had not noticed it, 
it was so very trifling. " Nevertheless," 
she answered, " God may have been of- 
fended, and that is the cause of my tears." 
Self-complacency found no place in her 
mind. She ingenuously avowed it. Once ; 
when she was still a novice, the Mother- 
Prioress during recreation asked her to 
sing for a newly- arrived postulant the 
canticle, "Blessed be God, I am his 
spouse." She did so with so sweet a 
voice and so lively an accent of piety 
that her young companion was delight- 
ed. When she had finished the Mother- 
Prioress said aloud : " Eh, well, my Sis- 
ter Saint-Pierre, how many thoughts of 
vanity had you whilst singing ? " Low- 



90 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

ering her eyes, she modestly answered : 
" If I have had any I have banished 
them." 

Her obedience was prompt, implicit, 
and perfect. She complied in the sim- 
plicity of a child with all that was requir- 
ed, stimulated thereto by the example of 
the Child Jesus at Nazareth. The words 
of the Gospel, " He was submissive to 
them" were ever on her lips. She ren- 
dered a blind obedience not only to her 
superiors, but to the Sisters upon whom 
she was dependent, and, in fact, to all, 
regarding them as her mistresses and 
making it a duty to acquiesce in their 
wishes, just like a child who has no 
will but that of its guardians. Thus 
she was able in her last sickness to say 
in all truth and candor : " It is my con- 
solation in death that I have always 
been obedient." 

Her recollection was so profound that 
merely to see her was sufficient to raise 
one's thoughts to God. She seemed un- 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 91 

conscious of what was going on around 
her, so much so that even after her Pro- 
fession she was ignorant of the various 
places assigned the different nuns in the 
choir and refectory. One of the nuns, 
whose cell was so situated that she had 
an opportunity of seeing her when she 
thought herself unseen by human eye, 
assures us that during the time she oc- 
cupied this cell, which was for several 
years, she never saw her raise her eyes 
from her work but to cast them on the 
little statue of the Infant Jesus which 
she always kept near her. 

After any supernatural communications 
she would appear pale, trembling, and 
bathed in tears ; especially was this the 
case when they revealed the woes im- 
pending over France. Then her tears 
flowed, yet calmly and silently. She 
would then appear so absorbed in recol- 
lection that it was difficult to draw her 
therefrom ; and this would last for hours, 
though without hindrance to the per- 



92 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

formance of her duties. Her union with 
God was intimate and continual; she 
never lost sight of him, and, according 
to her exj^ression, her soul, closely united 
to our Lord, was " happily bound at his 
feet." But this life, apparently so hea- 
venly and sweet, was not exempt from 
interior trials and sufferings. The Mo- 
ther-Prioress was convinced that these 
were so great that, whilst serving to 
purify her soul, they shortened her days 
in this world. 

She also possessed in an eminent de- 
gree that sweet liberty of spirit which 
distinguishes a true Carmelite. She knew 
perfectly well how to blend with the 
practice of the most exalted virtues the 
charms of charity, and even gayety. One 
day a friend brought to the convent as a 
present a piece of cake. Sister Saint- 
Pierre, then Portress, was very much 
fatigued. On receiving the cake she 
immediately carried it to the Mother- 
Prioress, and, presenting it to her, said 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 93 

with her usual simplicity : " "What a pro- 
vidence — the ass of the Infant Jesus is 
hungry ! " , The good Mother smiled, and 
gave a piece of the cake to her little 
Portress, who, giving thanks to God, 
gaily partook of it. 

During recreations she spoke but little, 
always preferring to listen ; nevertheless 
she was cheerful and amiable, expressing 
herself to the point and taking part in 
all that was said, though it was often 
necessary for her to make extremely vio- 
lent efforts to break off her interior con- 
verse with God. Her companions loved 
to be near her, because they always found 
it to their spiritual benefit. Her reserve 
was especially noticeable in matters per- 
taining to charity ; she excused every one, 
palliated their defects, and this with tact 
and cordiality. 

During her last illness, having passed 
a night of extreme suffering, she said to 
a nun who was from the same part of 
the country as herself: "You remember 



94 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

that in Brittany our little excursions end- 
ed with a feast, each person furnishing his 
or her share, one paying for the cream, 
another for the sugar. The good Jesus 
last night assigned to me the furnishing 
of the sugar by making me suffer very 
much." 

When, in 1848, she fell sick, it was at 
the time of the government elections, 
and the Carmelites had had more than 
one alarm. One day the Mother-Prioress 
said half -jestingly : " Since you cannot 
pray any more, you will be the spiritual 
drum, and whenever you hear the Na- 
tional Gruard beat the call to arms, do 
you call the holy angels to our assist- 
ance " She accepted her new mission, 
and the next day presented the Reverend 
Mother with a little drum, upon which 
was inscribed the Holy Name of God 
and that of each of the choirs of holy 
angels. Unable to make vocal pray- 
ers, she would take the little drum on 
her bed, and, striking it with her fin- 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 95 

gers, thus call the heavenly militia to 
their aid. The world may laugh at this 
trait of childish piety, but those not of 
the world will see in it the admirable 
simplicity of a soul transformed by the 
science of the Crib and the virtue of 
obedience. This drum, after the death 
of the Sister, was sent to a friend of Car- 
mel as a plaything to amuse his little 
boy. But in his family it was richly en- 
cased under a glass globe and is preserv- 
ed as a precious relic. 

Until the last our dear Sister cherish- 
ed a special devotion to the Divine In- 
fant Jesus and the cares which at that 
period of his life he received from his 
august Mother. She was richly reward- 
ed by the ineffable communications gra- 
ciously vouchsafed to her concerning the 
Divine Maternity, whence she drew 
greater and still greater confidence for 
the triumph of the Church and the sal- 
vation of France. 



CHAPTEE VIII. 




HER LAST SICKJVESS-HER DEATH. 

HE mission of the Sister was ac- 
complished. According to the 
designs of God there remained 
for her but to perfect the sacrifice which 
she had so often made of herself. Al- 
ready her health was beginning to fail. 
At the close of the Lent of 1848 she 
entered upon those sufferings which, unit- 
ing her more and more to Jesus Cruci- 
fied, were to crown her pure, holy life 
by an admirable death. 

On Good Friday, at three o'clock, 
when prostrate on the ground ador- 
ing Jesus Christ dying on the Cross, 
it was revealed to her that the divine 
wrath was about to descend upon men. 

96 



Sister Saint-Pierre, 97 

Immediately, renewing her act of per- 
fect abandonment, she offered herself to 
God as a victim to appease his irritated 
justice. It seemed as if the Lord had 
awaited this last and generous offering 
before immolating his courageous victim, 
for immediately was developed that long 
and painful sickness which caused her 
final dissolution. She was consumed by 
a burning fever; her throat became ul- 
cerated ; her tongue and mouth were as 
if incessantly pierced by cruel thorns — a 
noticeable fact, since our Lord had told 
her she must pray and suffer for blas- 
phemers. Night after night she was 
unable to take the slightest repose ; each 
change of position on her bed became 
a new martyrdom; ulcers were formed, 
which added to her sufferings. This 
frightful state for human nature she bore 
without the least injury to her interior 
disposition; her patience never waned, 
her union with God was continual, her 
spirit of sacrifice entire and without re- 



98 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

serve, her docility, innocence, and sim- 
plicity like that of a child. 

Early in June she received the Holy 
Viaticum and Extreme Unction with a 
fervor and rapture that made it seem 
that she already had a foretaste of the 
eternal joys in store for her. On Friday, 
the 16th of June, they thought her dy- 
ing, and began the Prayers for the Ago- 
nizing. Perfectly conscious, she united 
with the pious nuns by making frequent 
aspirations. Suddenly she entered into a 
supernatural state, the effects of which 
were very apparent. When, after the 
recommendations of the departing soul, 
they pronounced these words, " Maria, 
mater gratice, mater misericordice" she 
impulsively threw up her arms toward 
heaven with the eagerness of a child at 
the sight of its mother. She remained a 
long time in this position, although a 
few moments before so weak and stiff 
were her arms that they seemed immov- 
able. Afterwards she extended them in 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 99 

the form of a cross, in order to expire 
as a victim. When the dear nuns at- 
tempted to prevent it she said : " Leave 
7rie thus / for me it is a dutyP Alter- 
nately taking her crucifix and the little 
statue of the Infant Jesus which never 
quitted her, she covered them with 
kisses and pressed them to her heart. 
Then, holding the little statue as high 
as possible, she pronounced in a low, 
solemn tone these words : " Eternal 
Father ! once more I offer this Ado- 
rable Child, thy Divine Son, in expia- 
tion of my sins and those of the human 
race, for the needs of the Holy Church, 
for France and the Reparation. Amia- 
ble Jesus, I abandon this work into thy 
hands; for it I have lived, for it I shall 
die." Then, placing the statue on her 
head, she said : " Divine Child, cover 
my criminal head with the merits of thy 
Precious Blood ; renew in my soul grace 
and innocence ; clothe me in thy purity 
and the spirit of thy humility. Oh ! has- 



100 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

ten unto me ! When shall I leave 
earth? Come, O my Jesus, and delay 
not ! Mary, my tender Mother, come for 
my soul ! " 

She said to the Mother-Prioress : " My 
career is finished, as our Lord has made 
known to me ; for the Work of Repara- 
tion which is to save France is estab- 
lished. It was for this God placed me 
on earth. Now I have but to suffer; 
it is necessary for the accomplishment of 
his designs. Ah! how true it is that he 
has means of satisfying his justice un- 
known to man." 

Her agony was long and painful. As 
death approached she recollected that 
our Lord had promised to restore to her 
soul at the last hour the image of God, 
and she wished to renew her baptismal 
vows ; as a symbol of the grace she 
desired to receive, she asked for some 
holy water, made the sign of the cross 
upon her head, and pronounced these 
words : " Child, I baptize thee in the 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 101 

Name of the Father, and of the Son, 
and of the Holy Ghost." Then, joining 
her hands, she added : " I renounce Sa- 
tan and all his works and pomps; I de- 
sire to belong for ever to Jesus Christ." 
After this little ceremony her face as- 
sumed such an expression of heavenly 
beauty that one might readily have im- 
agined her a child just from the waters of 
Baptism or an angel about to re-ascend 
to its celestial home. From that moment 
till her last sigh she never ceased pray- 
ing. The sweat of death covered her 
brow, its chill had already benumbed 
her pain-worn frame, and yet the cold, 
livid lips continued to murmur : " Jesus, 
Mary, Joseph ! Come, Lord Jesus ! Sit 
JSfomen Domini lenedictum ! " These 
were her last words. Soon her eyes 
closed, and, as a last trait of resemblance 
to her Divine Master, she uttered a cry, 
and sweetly expired. It was on Sat- 
urday, a day consecrated to Mary. The 
mortal remains of this admirable daugh- 






102 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

ter of St. Teresa have been, through 
the care of M. Dupont, deposited with- 
in the enclosure of the Carmel of Tours, 
in the Chapter-Hall where they now re- 
pose, which corresponds to that part of 
the chapel which is on the right of the 
entrance. A mural stone near the holy- 
water font bears this simple inscription: 

Here rests 

Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre of the Holy 

Family, 

A Professed Religious of this Monastery, 

Who died July 8th, 1848, 

Aged 31 years and 9 months, 

Having been a Religious 9 years and 8 months. 

Lord, tlwu wilt conceal her in the secret of thy Face. 



CHAPTER IX. 

THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLT FACE. 




FTER the death of Sister Saint- 
Pierre two works, closely al- 
r ' w ^' lied in spirit to the Reparation 
and the Adoration of the Holy Sacra- 
ment, came from her virginal tomb like 
two miraculous flowers — the Congrega- 
tion devoted to Perpetual Adoration, 
founded by Mile. Dubouche, in religion 
Mother Mary Teresa ; and the Nocturnal 
Adoration by men, inaugurated by the 
celebrated Jew pianist, Hermann, later 
Father Marie- Augustine, of the Order of 
Discalced Carmelites. But it was M. 
Dupont who, in the designs of God, 
had the special mission to carry out and 
develop the work shown to the Carmel- 
ite of Tours for the salvation of France: 



104 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

the Work of Reparation for blasphemy 
and the profanation of Sunday by the 
culUis of the Holy Face. 

Towards the close of the Lenten sea- 
son of 1851 he exposed in his private 
oratory an engraving of the Sorrowful 
Face of our Lord, an authentic facsimile 
of the Veil of Yeronica preserved in the 
Vatican Basilica. Miracles ere long be- 
came manifest. The man of God re- 
joiced, because he beheld in them a proof 
of the truth of the revelations made to 
Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre. To the 
end he hoped the life and writings of 
the venerable Sister would be published. 
Understanding their worth, he knew how 
much good they would effect. His hope 
was realized. In 1876, before his earth- 
ly career ended, he learned that the 
Archbishop of Tours, Mgr. Colet, had 
issued orders that insured their being 
presented to the world. With a radiant 
face he blessed God, and, with his gaze 
turned towards the Carmelite convent, 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 105 

peaceably expired on the 18th of March. 
On his death his oratory, where for 
twenty-five years the Holy Face had 
been honored, was at once transformed 
into a public chapel. Mgr. Colet offi- 
ciated on the occasion of its dedica- 
tion. At the same time he established 
in this sanctuary the Confraternity of 
the Reparation for Blasphemy and for 
the Profanation of Sunday, affiliating it 
to that of St. Dizier already erected. 
Using his power as Ordinary, he gave to 
this Confraternity of Tours a distinct 
character, and made of it, properly 
speaking, a Confraternity of the Holy 
Face, which was really the embodiment 
of Sister Saint-Pierre's inspirations. Fi- 
nally, to minister to the new chapel 
and attend to the spiritual wants of the 
pilgrims who flocked from all parts 
thither, the worthy successor of St. Mar- 
tin instituted, under the title of " Priests 
of the Holy Face," a society of regular 
clergy living in community in the house 



106 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

formerly occupied by M. Dupont, and 
who, following in his footsteps and un- 
der liis auspices, would devote them- 
selves to all the Works of Reparation. 

Since then the Oratory of the Holy 
Face has become a centre of prayers 
and expiations to which the gaze and 
hearts of numbers turn, not only from 
all parts of France, but, in truth, from 
all Christendom. 

Nor was it long before other Confra- 
ternities of the Holy Face, similar to the 
one founded at Tours by Mgr. Colet, 
were established in many cities. Letters 
from all parts of the world are received 
soliciting pictures of the Holy Face 
like the one so long venerated by M. 
Dupont, which was an authentic fac-si- 
mile of the Yeil of Yeronica. It would 
be impossible to calculate the number 
of the holy pictures exposed in various 
places (and nearly always with a lamp 
burning before them) — in cathedrals, par- 
ish churches, public chapels, private 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 107 

houses and oratories, in hospitals, and in 
the enclosure of religious communi- 
ties. The Priests of the Holy Face at 
Tours have charged themselves with the 
pious duty of obtaining these pictures 
(the fac-simile of Veronica's Veil) from 
Rome and facilitating their distribution, 
or rather, we should say, supplying the 
demand for them, which is a consequence 
of the recognition of the wants of our 
age ; so natural is the idea of Reparation, 
so befitting and salutary, so powerful in 
attracting souls. 

This need of Reparation is' urgent; all 
Catholic hearts welcome its appearance, 
If it be true that France, God's privi- # 
leged nation, the Eldest Daughter of the 
Church, be the most guilty, because 
" much shall be demanded from her to 
whom much has been given " ; that blas- 
phemy in her midst is more audacious, 
and profanations of God's Holy Days 
more perverse; should not every gene- 
rous Christian soul feel called upon to 



108 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

labor zealously in establishing and pro- 
pagating this Work of Reparation so 
urgently demanded, in our Lord's Name, 
by the Carmelite of Tours ? What is 
more natural and just than to unite our 
efforts in repairing what impiety and ha- 
tred of God have combined to corrupt 
and ruin? The Work revealed to the 
admirable virgin whose history has been 
related is at the same time, as she herself 
says, "a necessity of justice and a pledge 
of mercy." Let our efforts be in com- 
mon, let us unite ourselves in striving 
fervently to appease Divine Justice ; then 
it will be our consolation to experience 
, only the effects of mercy, which will be 
all the more abundant as our Reparation 
has been prompt and fervent. 



Sister Saint-Pierre. 109 



CONDITIONS 



For being Beceived into the Confraternity of 
the Separation of the Holy Face. 



1. To be inscribed on the Register of 
the Confraternity where it is canonically 
established. 

2. To obtain a copy of the Regula- 
tions, wherewith will be found the ticket 
of admission. 

3. To wear at all times the Cross of 
the Confraternity. 

4. Never to blaspheme, and to do all 
one can to prevent blasphemy. 

5. When not possible to prevent these 
crimes, to make, at least, an interior act 
of Reparation for them. 

6. To recite daily a Pater, Ave, and 
Gloria Patri, " with the Act of Praise," 
in union with the Associates, in the 
spirit of Reparation. 

Note. — The Most Reverend Archbishops, Right 
Reverend Bishops, and Reverend Clergy, also 



110 Sister Saint-Pierre. 

all pious laymen, are earnestly requested to use 
their influence in having exposed for devotion 
pictures of the Holy Face, and establishing every- 
where the Confraternity of the Reparation for 
Blasphemy and Profanation of Sunday. 

AH desired information connected with this 
Confraternity may be obtained by addressing 
the Reverend Director of the Confraternity, Ora- 
tory of the Holy Face, *8 Rue Saint-Etienne, 
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France ; or the Reverend 
Mother-Prioress, Convent of Discalced Carmelites, 
134 Barrack Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, in 
whose chapel the Confraternity of the Holy Face 
is canonically established. 



APPENDIX. 

CONTAINING 

RULES, PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS 

FOR THE 

CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY FACE. 



Ill 




True Image of the Holy Face of our I 
tf Lord Jesus Christ, Religiously venerated ft 
§ and kept in Rome, in the Basilica of Saint ft 
y Peter, in the Vatican. 



RULES 







(J 

IN HONOR OF 

THE HOLY PACE. 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 

1883. 



Ibistorical IFlottce. 



Pius IX., in an audience of July 30, 1847, ap- 
proved the Confraternity for the Reparation of Blas- 
phemy and the Profanation of Sunday. His Holi- 
ness greeted the petition with the most ardent enthu- 
siasm, requested that his name be the first inscribed 
on the register of the Confraternity, and said that 
the " Reparation was a work destined to save society.'' 
Sister Saint-Pierre, on hearing this, exclaimed: " My 
mission here below is accomplished ; I can now die ! " 
She died a year later, July 8, 1848. 

M. Dupont developed and continued her "work." 
On Wednesday of Holy Week (1851) he lighted a 
lamp (which has never ceased to burn night and day) 
before the image of the Holy Face, which is the sen- 
sible sign of the Confraternity of the Reparation. 
The miraculous graces obtained by the oil of the 
lamp were to his eyes as so many proofs that our 
Lord accepted the devotion rendered to his Holy 
Face as a means of repairing the outrages committed 
against the majesty of the Thrice Holy Name of God. 
He never ceased to recommend the Reparation. He 
said: "Pray that this work may spread. It seems 
from what is taking place that our Lord desires, and 
without delay, that souls devoted to him should prac- 
115 






116 Appendix. 

tise this salutary exercise. It is a necessity that those 
who comprehend what God wills should courageously 
walk in the way of Reparation." 

The work has spread, and to-day the members in 
the different parts of the world are counted by hun- 
dreds of thousands. In transforming the oratory of 
M. Dupont into a public chapel Mgr. Colet, Arch- 
bishop of Tours, erected there June 2, 1876, a Con- 
fraternity of Reparation in honor of the Holy Face; 
also established a society of priests who would devote 
themselves to it and extend its propagation. 

"Our Lord," said Sister Saint-Pierre, "demands 
this work of Reparation of France which will be a 
rainbow of mercy. Ah! " said she, " if it were estab- 
lished in all dioceses I would be without uneasiness, 
for God is faithful to his promises. ... Oh ! how I 
would wish to make known to all bishops this consol- 
ing truth, and ask them with earnest supplication 
the establishment of this work of the Reparation ! I 
have always said it, and I now repeat it, This work 
will disarm the anger of God, save France and the 
world." 

Happy are those who profit by this means of sal- 
vation. 

(See Life of Sister Saint- Pierre, written by her- 
self. This book and all others in English and French 
can be had at No. 134 Barrack Street, New Orleans, 
La., by addressing the Rev. Mother-Prioress of the 
Discalced Carmelites.) 



IRuIes 

OF THE 

CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY FACE 

In Reparation for Blasphemy and the Pro- 
fanation of Sunday. 

Established at Tours in the Oratory of the Venerated 

3f. Dupont, and in the Chapel of the Dis- 

calced Carmelites, New Orleans. 



Article 1. The end of the Confraternity 
of the Reparation in honor of the Holy 
Face is, 1st, to repair the outrages commit- 
ted against the Divine Majesty of God by 
blasphemies, the profanation of Sunday 
and the feasts of the Church ; 2d 3 to ob- 
tain the conversion and salvation of blas- 
phemers and prof aners ; 3d, to preserve 
youth and the family from the fatal effects 
of these scandals. 

To obtain this triple end, so important in 

117 



118 Appendix. 

our day, it proposes to render a special cul- 
tus of prayer, adoration, and love to the 
most Holy Face of our Lord, outraged and 
disfigured in his Passion. 

Art. 2. It is consecrated to the Adora- 
ble Trinity, to the Holy Name of Jesus, 
and to his Sorrowful Face. 

It is placed under the patronage of St. 
Michael, St. Martin, and St. Louis, protec- 
tor of France. In the cultus which the 
Confraternity renders to the Holy Face it 
takes for its models the Immaculate Yirgin 
Mary, patroness of the United States ; the 
Apostle St. Peter, and the pious Veronica. 
Trinity Sunday is the principal feast ; the 
second one is that of the Holy Name of 
Jesus, the second Sunday after Epiphany ; 
and for particular feasts those of the saints 
above mentioned or those who are proposed 
as models. 

Art. 3. Catholics of all ages, of either 
sex, and of all conditions are exhorted to 
enter this Confraternity. Children who 
have not yet made their first Communion 
will be received as aspirants and placed 
most particularly under the protection of 



Appendix. 119 

the Amiable Face of the Saviour, who so 
tenderly called little children to Him. 
Art. 4. Each member from the time of 

entrance into the Confraternity devotes 
himself for life and death to the worship of 
the Merciful and Compassionate Face of 
our Lord, and assumes the strict obliga- 
tion never to utter blasphemies or impreca- 
tions, to hold no conversation, to read no- 
thing written, and to take no part in any 
act which outrages God and our Lord Jesus 
Christ in his saints or through his works ; 
never to perform any servile work on Sun- 
days and holidays without necessity and 
without permission. 

Art. 5. Those in authority over others, 
such as parents, public men, masters, super- 
intendents of works, patrons, workmen 
etc., should make a firm resolution as far 
as is in their power to promote the obser- 
vance of the rules which are laid down in 
the preceding Article. They will take par- 
ticular care that the aspirants of the Con- 
fraternity shall not receive scandal in this, 
regard. 

Art. 6. When the members hear a bias- 



120 Appendix. 

phemy or any impious word uttered, when 
they see Sundays and holidays profaned 
and cannot prevent it, they should offer up 
to God some Reparation, saying, for exam- 
ple, Sit Nomen Domini benedictum — May 
God be praised; may his Holy Name be 
blessed ; Our Father, hallowed be thy 
Name ; God our Protector, look upon the 
Face of thy Christ. They may also add, 
Vade retro, Satana. 

Art. 7. The Confraternity of the Repa- 
ration considers the Adorable and Sorrow- 
ful Face of our Lord the exterior sign and 
sensible object of the Reparation, as has 
been declared by the ordinance, dated June 
2, 1876, of his Grace the Archbishop of 
Tours, who canonically erected the said 
Confraternity in " the oratory of M. Du- 
pont. There since 1851 has been honored a 
picture of the Face of our Lord, an authen- 
tic facsimile of the celebrated Veil of the 
Vatican, given to the servant of God by 
the Rev. Mother-Prioress of the Carmel- 
ites on account of his zeal for the Repar- 
ation and in remembrance of the pious re- 
lations he had with Sister Saint-Pierre, 



Appendix. 121 

who died in the odor of sanctity July 8, 
1848." 

This sign is represented by a Cross, on 
one side of which is an image of the Holy 
Face, bearing on the top the inscription 
of the cross, on either arm " Tours, 1876," 
at the base " Vade retro, Satana," on the 
reverse side the monogram of Christ en- 
circled by these words, " Reparation, Pius 
IX., 1847," and upon the Cross, " Sit No- 
men Domini Benedictum." 

Art. 8. The members will recite daily a 
Pater Xoster, Ave Maria, Gloria Patri, and 
the Act of Praise in Reparation for out- 
rages committed against God by blas- 
phemy and the profanation of Sunday ; 
they will at least unite their intention to 
the prayers w T hich are offered up daily in 
the oratories of Reparation, in the morning 
after the 7 o'clock Mass and in the after- 
noon at 5 o'clock. The Litany of the 
Holy Face, composed by Sister Saint- 
Pierre and approved by ecclesiastical au- 
thorities, is daily recited in the oratories, 
after which follow T the different recom- 
mendations presented by the faithful. 



122 Appendix. 

Art. 9. On the last Sunday of every 
month, in the afternoon, a solemn assembly 
takes place in the oratories of the Holy 
Face, in reparation for these same out- 
rages, but more especially for those com- 
mitted within the month. The Act of 
Reparation is recited with the invoca- 
tions : St. Michael, pray for us ; St. Peter, 
pray for us ; St. Martin, pray for us ; 
St. Louis, pray for us ; O God our Pro- 
tector! look upon the Face of thy Christ 
and we shall be saved. These prayers are 
preceded by an Instruction and followed 
by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. 

Each member is exhorted to offer up 
these prayers every other Sunday of the 
month in reparation for the sins of each 
week. 

On the first Thursday of the month the 
evening assemblies, held at 5 o'clock, are 
specially devoted to the aspirants of the 
Work of Reparation. 

(Special prayers are also recited daily, weekly, and 
monthly in the chapel of the Discalced Carmelites for 
the Reparation of the evils of this country — namely, 
intemperance, ganibling, immorality, etc.) 



Appendix. 123 

Art. 10. The director of a canonically- 
established Confraternity admits as mem- 
bers those who ask to have their names in- 
scribed upon the register. All are exhort- 
ed to habitually wear the Cross of the Con- 
fraternity and to read over the Rules from 
time to time. To share in the merits of the 
work the name must be inscribed in the re- 
gister. A particular register is kept for the 
aspirants of the work who, after their first 
Communion, may desire to have their 
names inscribed in the grand register. 

Art. 11. The Confraternity of Repara- 
tion established at Tours and in the Car- 
melite chapel, New Orleans, La., are can- 
onically affiliated to the Archconfrater- 
nity of St. Dizier, diocese of Langres, and 
enjoy the same privileges and spiritual 
favors. 

Art. 12. The members may gain the 
following Plenary and Partial Indul- 
gences : 

Plenary : 1st. On the day of admission 
and putting on the Cross. 2d. At the 
hour of death. 3d. On the feasts of the 
Holy Trinity, the Holy Name of Jesus, 



124 Appendix. 

St. Michael, St. Martin, and St. Louis, 
either on the day itself or on any day 
during the octave (Pius IX., July 27, 
1847). 4th. On the last Sunday of each 
month, if they assist at the monthly 
meeting and if the Cross of the Con- 
fraternity is worn habitually (applicable to 
the souls in Purgatory — Pius IX., Aug. 
18, 1847). 

(To gain the foregoing Indulgences it is necessary 
to go to Confession and Holy Communion, visit an 
oratory of the Confraternity (or, if this is impossi- 
ble, one's parish church), and there pray for the in- 
tentions of the Sovereign Pontiff. — Pius IX., Aug. 
18, 1848.) 

Partial Indulgences : 1st. 100 days for 
each pious work of the Confraternity (Pius 
IX., July 27, 1847) ; 2d. 300 days for at- 
tending the monthly meeting (applicable to 
the souls in Purgatory — Pius IX., Aug. 18, 
1848) ; 3d. 100 days for every prayer of- 
fered before an image of the Holy Face 
(applicable to the souls in Purgatory — Pius 
IX., Dec. 11, 1876) ; 4th. 40 days for at- 
tending each of the Exercises of Repara- 
tion which are held morning and evening 



Appendix. 125 

in the oratories of the Holy Face (Arch- 
bishop of Tours, Nov. 15, 1876). 

These Rules of the Confraternity in Re- 
paration for Blasphemy and the Profana- 
tion of Sunday, canonically erected at Tours 
and New Orleans in honor of the Holy 
Face, have been seen and approved. 

Tours, Nov. 15, 1870. 

4« Charles, Archbishop of Tours. 

New Orleans, March 12, 1883. 
►J* ~N. J. Perche, 

Archbishop of New Orleans. 



SOUVENIR OF ADMISSION. 



M _ 188 , 

has been admitted into the Confraternity 
of the Holy Face. 

P. JANVIER, 

Doyen du Chapetre, Ptre. de la Ste. Face, 
Supreme Director of the Work. 

Rev 

Local Director. 
« —* 



126 Appendix. 

Forms for the Canonical Erection of the Con- 
fraternity in a Parish Church or Chapel. 

Reverend pastors, chaplains, almoners, 
superiors or directors of communities 
should — 

1. Ask the permission of the ordinary 
and his approval of the Rules. 

2. Adopt the Rules used by the Confra- 
ternity established at Tours, with any spe- 
cial modifications the ordinary may see fit 
to suggest. 

3. Obtain a diploma of affiliation from 
the director of the Archconfraternity of 
St. Dizier, diocese of Langres (Haute- 
Marne), which is never refused, and which 
must be submitted to the ordinary before 
the inauguration of the Confraternity. 

4. To hang in the church or chapel an 
image of the Sorrowful Face of our Lord 
like the one in the oratory of M. Dupont, 
and, if possible, to keep a lamp constantly 
burning before it. 

5. To obtain a diploma of aggregation 
and union of merits and prayers from the 
director of the Confraternity at Tours, and 
in return assume the duty of propagating 



, Appendix. 127 

as zealously as possible the spirit of Re- 
paration and devotion to the Holy Face. 



An Abridgment of Conditions for Membership. 

1st. To be inscribed on the register of 
the Confraternity. 

2d. To obtain the Rules containing the 
Certificate of Admission. 

3d. Recite daily a Pater, A ye ? Gloria, 
and the Act of Praise in a spirit of Repa- 
ration. 

4th. Avoid blasphemies and the profana- 
tion of Sunday, and to at least repair those 
evils by an interior act of Reparation. 

5th. Wear at all times the Cross of the 
Confraternity. 

6th. To zealously propagate devotion to 
the Holy Face. 

For further particulars apply to No. 134 Barrack 
Street, New Orleans, La., where these Rules of the 
Confraternity, the oil from the lamp of the Holy 
Face, scapulars, medals, pictures, photographs, 
crosses, books, chaplets, gospels of the Holy Name, 
and all else connected with the Reparation can be 
obtained. The oratories of the Holy Face are open 
to pilgrims and visitors daily from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m., 
where recommendations can be sent by mail or left 



128 Appendix. 

by visitors. It is earnestly requested that persons 
who obtain graces should send a written account of 
the same, and likewise have an ex-voto put up in 
thanksgiving for favors received through the Holy 
Face. These ex-votos can be procured on applying 
at the oratory. During Novenas lamps and candles 
will be kept burning when requested. 



Atomises 

Of Our Lord Jesus Christ in favor of all who 
Honor his Holy Face. 

1. They shall receive in themselves, by- 
the impression of my Humanity, a bright 
irradiation from my Divinity, and shall be 
so illuminated by it in their inmost souls 
that by their likeness to my Face they shall 
shine with a brightness surpassing that of 
many others in eternal life. (St. Gertrude, 
book iv. cli. vii.) 

2. St. Mechtilde having asked our Lord 
that those who celebrate the memory of his 
sweet Face should never be deprived of his 
amiable company, he replied : " Not one of 
them shall be separated from me." (St. 
Mechtilde, De la Grace Spirituelle, book i. 
ch. xiii.) 



Appendix. 129 

3. " Our Lord," said Sister Saint-Pierre, 
" has promised me that he will imprint his 
Divine likeness on the souls of those who 
honor his most Holy Countenance." (Jan- 
uary 21, 1847.) 

" This Adorable Face is, as it were, the 
seal of the Divinity, which has the virtue 
of reproducing the likeness of God in the 
souls that are applied to it. " (November 
6, 1845.) 

4. " By my Holy Face you shall work 
miracles." (October 27, 1845. Our Lord 
to Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre.) 

5. " By my Holy Face you will obtain 
the conversion of many sinners. Nothing 
that you ask in making this offering will 
be refused to you. No one can know how 
pleasing the sight of my Face is to my 
Father ! " (November 22, 1846.) 

6. " As in a kingdom you can procure all 
you wish for with a coin marked with the 
prince's effigy, so in the kingdom of hea- 
ven you will obtain all you desire with the 
precious coin of my holy Humanity, which 
is my Adorable Countenance." (October 
29, 1845.) 



130 Appendix. 

7. " All those who honor my Holy Face 
in a spirit of Reparation will by so doing 
perform the office of the pious Veronica." 
(October 27, 1S45.) 

8. " According to the care yon take in 
making Reparation to my Face, disfigured 
by blasphemies, so will I take care of yours, 
which has been disfigured by sin. I will 
reprint my image and render it as beauti- 
ful as it was on leaving the baptismal 
font." (Our Lord to Sister Marie de Saint- 
Pierre, November 3, 1845.) 

9. " Our Lord has promised me," said 
again Sister Saint-Pierre, "for all those 
who defend his cause in this Work of Re- 
paration, by words, by prayers, or in writ- 
ing, that he will defend them before his 
Father ; at their death he will purify their 
souls by effacing all the blots of sin and 
will restore to them their primitive beau- 
ty." (March 12, 1846.) 



Prayer of Pope Pius IX. 

O my Jesus! cast upon us a look of 
mercy. Turn thy Face towards each of us, 
as thou didst to Yeronica; not that we 



Appendix. 131 

may see it with our bodily eyes, for this 
we do not deserve, but turn it towards 
our hearts, so that, remembering thee, we 
may ever draw from this fountain of 
strength the vigor necessary to sustain the 
combats of life. Amen. 

(At an audience given to three Roman parishes, 
March 10, 1872. Several French bishops have at- 
tached indulgences to this prayer.) 



Blessings of the High-Priest Aaron. 

JBenedicat tibi Dominus, et custodiat te / 
Ostendat Dominus Faciem suam tibi, 

et misereatur tui. 

The Lord bless thee and keep thee : 
The Lord show his Face to thee and 

have mercy on thee. The Lord turn his 

Countenance to thee and give thee peace. 

(Numbers vi. 24-26.) 



Aspirations. 

Eternal Father, we offer thee the Adora- 
ble Face of thy well-beloved Son for the 
honor and glory of thy holy name and for 
the conversion of France and England. 
(Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre.) 



132 Appendix. 

May I die consumed by an ardent thirst 
to see the Face of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ, (Thought of St. Edmund, 
which M. Dupont frequently repeated to- 
wards the close of his life.) 

(With approbation of the Archbishop of Tours, 
dated August 26, 1876.) 



2)e\>otion 

TO THE HOLY FACE OF OUR LORD. 

The principal object of the devotion to the Holy 
Face is to offer respectful love and homage to the 
Adorable Face of Jesus disfigured in the Passion ; to 
make reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of 
Holy Days, which outrages him afresh ; and, lastly, 
to obtain of God the conversion of sinners and pro- 
faners of the Holy Day. 

This touching devotion, which our Lord himself 
seems to have instituted on the day of his death by 
imprinting miraculously the traces of his blood- 
stained features on*the Veil of Veronica, has always 
been known and practised in the Church. The holy 
Veil, carefully preserved at Rome in the Vatican Ba- 
silica, receives many honors and marks of confidence. 
It is exposed several times a year to the veneration of 
the faithful. The Sovereign Pontiffs have accorded 
numerous indulgences to those who visit this signal 
relic with a pious intention. Many saints, men and 



Appendix. 133 

women, have been distinguished by their devotion to 
the Divine Face, and have obtained all kinds of 
graces and blessings by invoking it. We will men- 
tion, among others, Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard, 
Saint Gertrude, Saint Mechtilde, and in our own 
times, among those deceased in the odor of sanctity, 
Sister Marie de Saint- Pierre, Carmelite at Tours ; 
Mother Marie-Therese, foundress of the Congregation 
de V Adoration Reparatrice; lastly, the venerable M. 
Dupont, indefatigable propagator of the devotion to 
the Holy Face. Lately this devotion has become 
more general. It is an inspiration of the Holy 
Ghost passing through the Catholic world. It is 
a providential remedy offered to the world to com- 
bat the ravages of impiety and a shield against the 
scourges of divine justice. 

The magnificent and consoling promises of our 
Lord, confirmed by a happy experience, show how 
pleasing the devotion of the Holy Face is to God and 
how useful to Christians. How many special graces, 
what unhoped-for conversions, what success in busi- 
ness, what supernatural lights have been obtained by 
this means ! Above all, what a number of miracu- 
lous cures have been wrought by the virtue of the 
oil which burns constantly before the venerated pic- 
ture at Tours ! 

It is remarkable that in no other part of his Adora- 
ble Body did our Lord suffer such outrages, such 
ignominies and insults, as in his amiable Face. No 
other circumstance of the Passion was as clearly an- 
nounced by the prophets nor as minutely related by 
the Evangelists. All these details were not preserved 



134 Appendix. 

in the Scriptures without a particular design of God. 
They exhort us to give a place among the mys- 
teries of the sorrowful Passion of the Redeemer to 
the humiliations and sufferings of his most Holy 
Face. Christians who have at heart the glory of 
God and the salvation of others, honor with pro- 
found veneration the blood-stained and humiliated 
Face of your Saviour, and pray to it with abso- 
lute confidence. In reparation of the impiety of the 
world offer to the Eternal Father this Adorable Face, 
with its sadness, its ignominy, its blood, its tears, its 
bruises, and its wounds. By so doing you will ap- 
•pease the anger of God, obtain the conversion of your 
erring brethren, contribute powerfully to the tri- 
umph of the Church and to the conversion of France 
and England and your own country, and you will 
participate in the glorious rewards promised by our 
Lord. 



BMous IReflections 

UPON THE HOLY FACE. 

(From the works of Sister Saint-Pierre.) 

1. The Holy Face and the Holy Name 
of Jesus. 

A comparison, as simple as it is just, 
will show us how the impious by their 
blasphemy outrage the Adorable Face of 



Appendix. . 135 

our Lord, and how faithful souls glorify 
it by the praises they render to his Name 
and Person. Merit belongs to people, and 
the honor which they have is due to 
their name. When pronounced it carries 
with it merit or demerit, as it is deserved. 
The Holy Name of Jesus testifies to the 
glorious victory he has achieved over hell, 
and expresses the adorable merits of his 
Person. The Holy Name of God testi- 
fies to his divinity, and contains within 
itself all the perfections of the Creator; 
it follows, therefore, that those who blas- 
pheme these sacred names directly attack 
God himself. Let us here recall those 
words of Jesus : " I belong to my Father, 
and my Father belongs to me." Jesus 
became passive through the Incarnation ; 
it is he who suffers in his Adorable Face 
the outrages to the Name of God by 
blasphemy. There is a look of dumb pain 
upon the face of a man that is despised ; 
his name and his face seem to bear an 
analogy one to the other. Behold a man, 
equally distinguished for his name and 
good qualities, in the presence of his ene- 



136 Appendix. 

mies. They do not lift their hands to 
strike him, but they overwhelm him with 
abuse ; they add derisive epithets to his 
name in place of the honorable titles which 
are his due. Observe, again, the look that 
passes over this man's face. Would you 
not think that all the abuse from the lips 
of his enemies is centred here, causing him 
to endure poignant anguish ? The face is 
suffused with shame and vexation ; the op- 
probrium and ignominy he suffers are 
harder to bear than real pain in other 
parts of his body. This, then, is a feeble 
explanation of our Lord's Face outraged 
by the blasphemy of the impious. 

Represent to yourself this same man in 
the presence of his friends, who, hearing 
of the insults heaped upon him by his ene- 
mies, make haste to console him. They 
respect his dignity, do homage to his high 
name by giving him all the titles that be- 
long to him. Do you not observe how this 
man's face changes under the sweet influ- 
ence of this praise ? There is a halo on 
his brow, which, spreading over the face, 
causes it to beam brightly ; joy sparkles in 



Appendix. 137 

his eye ; there is a smile upon his lips — in a 
word, his faithful friends ha e healed the 
agonizing wounds of that face outraged by 
enemies ; honor has superseded opprobri- 
um. This is done by the friends of Jesus 
in the Work of Reparation ; the glory 
with which they surround his Name beams 
upon his august brow and causes his Holy 
Face to rejoice. 

2. Double motive for the Work of Repa- 
ration through the Holy Face. 

This work has two ends, the Reparation 
of blasphemy and the Reparation of the 
profanation of Holy Days; it therefore 
embraces all outrages to God, and to his 
Holy Name. 

Should the devotion of the Holy Face 
be united to this work ? Yes ; it forms 
part of its riches, and is its most precious 
ornament, since our Lord has made an 
offering of his Holy Face as an object of 
devotion to the members. They are all- 
powerful with God because of the offering 
they make him of that August and Divine 
Face, whose sight is so pleasing to him 
that it invariably softens his anger and 



138 Appendix. 

obtains for poor sinners his infinite mercy. 
Yes, when the Eternal Father contemplates 
the Face of his well-beloved Son, which 
has been buffeted, bruised, and covered 
with ignominy, the sight moves the bowels 
of his mercy. Let us endeavor to profit 
by this precious gift, and let us beg this 
Divine Saviour to teach us the patience of 
his Face during the evil days. 

3. Why the Holy Face is the Visible 
Sign of Reparation, 

This August Face offered to our devo- 
tion is the ineffable mirror of the divine 
perfection contained and expressed in the 
Holy Name of God. As the Sacred Heart 
of Jesus is the visible sign offered to our 
devotion to typify the immensity of his 
love in the Sacrament of the Altar ; in 
like manner the Adorable Face of our Lord 
.is the visible sign offered to our devotion 
to repair the outrages committed by blas- 
phemers towards the Majesty and Sove- 
reignty of God, of which the Holy Face 
is the form, the mirror or expression. 
Thus by virtue of this Holy Face offered 
to the Eternal Faiher we may appease his 






Appendix. 139 

anger and obtain the conversion of the im- 
pious and blasphemous. 

One may say with truth that sectarians 
and blasphemers renew towards the Holy 
Face of our Lord the opprobrium of the 
Passion. The impious who utter horrible 
language and blaspheme against the Holy 
Name of God, spitting in the Face of the 
Saviour and covering it with filth ; and 
sectarians who attack the Church and re- 
ligion renew the many blows the Face of 
our Lord has received, making this Di- 
vine Face sweat again with their efforts 
to efface his wonderful works. There 
is need of more Veronicas to do honor 
to this Divine Face, that has so few 
to adore it. All those who dedicate 
themselves to the Work of Reparation 
fill the place of the pious Israelite, and 
our Lord has constituted St. Louis, King 
of France, as one of the protectors of this 
Work of Reparation, because of the zeal 
he showed for the glory of His Name. 

4. The Office of the Pious Veronica. 

The pious service rendered by St. Ye- 
ronica to our Lord was that of wiping his 



140 Appendix. 

Holy Face. Yes, all blasphemy hurled by 
the impious against the divinity they cannot 
reach falls, like the spittle of the Jews, on 
the Holy Face of our Lord, who has offered 
himself up as a victim for sinners. We 
thus see that by giving ourselves up to the 
exercise of repairing blasphemy, we render 
our Lord the same service as that of the 
pious Yeronica, and that he looks upon those 
who offer it to him with the same benefi- 
cent eyes as those with which he looked 
upon that holy woman during the Passion. 

5. Power of the Holy Face over St. 
Peter. 

There are men on earth who can restore 
the body, but our Lord alone can restore 
the soul to the image of God ; this, 
then, is the grace the Divine Master has 
promised to those w T ho render to his Ado- 
rable Face the homage and honor it merits, 
with the intention to repair by this hom- 
age the opprobrium it receives from blas- 
phemers. 

One sees in the Apostle St. Peter an ex- 
ample of the power of the Holy Face. 
This apostle had by his sin effaced the im- 



Appendix. 141 

age of God in his soul, but Jesus turned 
liis Holy Face towards the unfaithful apos- 
tle and he became penitent : " Jesus look- 
ed upon Peter, and Peter wept bitterly." 
This Adorable Face is like the seal of the 
Divinity, with power to imprint in the 
souls of those who devote themselves to 
it the image of God. 

6. The Holy Face represents the Adora- 
ble Trinity. 

Remember, O my soul, the divine les- 
son thy heavenly Spouse has taught thee 
of the Adorable Face ; remember that this 
Divine Head represents the Eternal Father, 
who is not begotten ; that the Mouth of this 
Holy Face represents the Divine Word 
made Flesh by the Father, and the Eyes 
of this Holy and Silent Face represent the 
reciprocal love of the Father and the Son — 
for his Divine Eyes have but one light, 
one intelligence, and produce one only 
love, which is that of the Holy Ghost ; 
behold in the Hair the diverse perfections 
of the Holy Trinity. Look upon the Ma- 
jestic Head as a precious part of the Holy 
Humanity of our Lord, the image of the 



142 Appendix. 

Unity of God ; and it is this Adorable and 
Silent Face of the Saviour that blasphemers 
overwhelm with fresh insults. They thus 
renew in some measure the sufferings of 
the Passion in attacking by their blas- 
phemy the Divinity of which it is the 



Xfttte Scapular of tbe fbols face. 

The Scapular of the Holy Face is a little 
image of the Adorable Face, painted on 
linen, to be worn with devotion by pious 
souls as a testimony of their love towards 
our Lord, as a preservation against tempta- 
tions and dangers of soul and body. It 
can be attached to the Scapular of our Lady 
of Mount Carmel, or to any other the per- 
son wears. There is no liturgical formali- 
ty necessary for its reception, and the per- 
son who takes this Scapular contracts no 
other obligation than to wear it in the 
spirit of faith and reparation. 

It is a little fac-simile of the Veil of St. 
Veronica, one of the greater relics of the 
Vatican Basilica in Rome. 



Appendix. 143 

Xittle Cbapiet of tbe 1fool£ jface* 

The purpose of the Crown or Chaplet of 
the Holy Face is to honor the five Wounds 
pf our Lord Jesus Christ and to ask of God 
the triumph of his Holy Church. 

This Chaplet is composed of a cross and 
thirty-nine beads ; of these six are large 
beads and thirty-three small ones ; to this 
Chaplet is attached a medal of the Holy 
Face. It would be well to recite it daily 
in order to obtain from God, by the Face 
of his well-beloved Son, the triumph of 
our holy mother, the Catholic Church. On 
the cross, which reminds us of the mystery 
of our Redemption, we begin the Chaplet 
by saying the words : " Deics in adjuto- 
rium meum intende * Domine ad adju- 
vandum me festina " (" Incline unto my 
aid, O God ; O Lord, make haste to help 
me "), followed by the Gloria Patr% etc. 

The thirty-three small beads represent 
the thirty-three years of the mortal life of 
our Divine Lord. The first thirty beads 
recall to us the thirty years of his hidden 
life, and are divided into five parts of six 



144 Appendix. 

beads each, in honor of the five senses of 
touch, hearing, sight, smell, and taste of 
Jesus; and, as they were situated princi- 
pally in his Holy Face, to make repara- 
tion for all the sufferings which our Lord 
has endured in his Face through each one 
of these senses. 

The six beads are preceded by a large 
bead, followed by a Gloria Patri, etc., to 
recall the sense we wish to honor. The 
other beads mark the three years of the 
public life of our Lord, and have for their 
intention to honor all the Wounds of his 
Adorable Face. These are also preceded 
by a large bead, to be followed by a Gloria 
Patri, etc., for the same intention. 

On each large bead is said : " My Jesus, 
mercy" (100 days' indulgence). On the 
small beads is said: " Arise, O Lord, and 
let thy enemies be scattered, and let those 
that hate thee fly before thy Face." 

The Gloria Patri, etc., is recited seven 
times in honor of the seven last words of 
Jesus upon the Gross and the seven Do- 
lors of the Immaculate Virgin. 

The Chaplet is concluded by saying on 



Appendix. 145 

the medal : " God our protector, look down 
upon us and cast thine eyes upon the Face 
of thy Christ." * 

(With the approbation of N. J. Perche, Archbishop 
of New Orleans.) 



an Bet of IResignation for tbe Sicft, 

Thou didst speak, Lord Jesus, and the 
sins of the happy paralytic were forgiven 
ere thou hadst said, u Arise " (Mark ii. 2). 

Knowing and believing firmly that thou 
hast given to thy priests the power of re- 
mittir\g sins, miserable sinner that I am, I 
will at once go to the tribunal of penance 
before imploring thee to cast the eyes of 
thine infinite mercy upon my bodily in- 
firmities, and, submitting my heart and 
soul to thy holy will, O Lord, I will 
await in peace the accomplishment of my 
prayers on earth, with the hope of behold- 
ing, praising, and blessing thine Adorable 
Face in the eternity of heaven. Amen. 

Formulas used by M. Dupont when an- 
ointing the sick with the oil of the Holy 

* This chaplet was composed by Sister Saint-Pierre. 



146 Appendix. 

Face : " May the Lord deign to unite 
with us in making this unction and re- 
store this sick person to health." In the 
name of the Father, etc. Or, "May the 
holy names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph be 
known, blessed, and glorified throughout 
the entire world." Amen. 

(Imprimatur: 4. N. J. Perche, Archbishop 6f New 
Orleans.) 



H Collection of prapers 

AND EXERCISES SUITABLE FOR REPARA- 
TION. 

(From the writings of Sister Saint-Pierre.) 

The Act of Praise, or Golden Arrow. 

May the most holy, most sacred, most 
adorable, most incomprehensible and inef- 
fable Name of God be for ever praised, 
blessed, loved, adored, and glorified in hea- 
ven and on earth by all the creatures of 
God, and by our Saviour Jesus Christ in 
the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. 
Amen. 

(This act of praise in honor of the three Persons of 
the Holy. Trinity is to be repeated three times.) 



Appendix. 147 

Prayer to the Eternal Father. 
O Ail-Powerful and Eternal God, it is 
through the Heart of Jesus, thy Divine 
Son, my way, my truth, and my life, that 
I approach thee. I come through that 
Adorable Heart, in union with the holy 
angels and all the saints, to praise, bless, 
adore, and glorify thy Holy Name, scorned 
and blasphemed by so large a number of 
sinners. Accompanying in thought the 
good spirits, ministers of thy mercy, 1 
make the circuit of the globe ; seeking all 
souls redeemed by the blood of thy only 
Son, I offer them to thee by the hands of 
the Holy Virgin and glorious St. Joseph, 
under the protection of the angels and all 
the saints, supplicating thee, in the Name 
and through the merits of our Saviour 
Jesus, to convert all blasphemers and pro- 
faners of thy :Holy Days, that we may 
have but one voice, one mind, and one 
heart to praise, bless, love, adore, and glo- 
rify thy Holy Name through the height, 
the depth, the breadth, the immensity, the 
fulness of honor of the praises and infi- 
nite adoration that the Sacred Heart of 



148 Appendix. 

thy well-beloved Son accords thee — that 
Sacred Name which is the delight of the 
Holy Trinity. 



Twenty-four Aspirations to Repair the Blas- 
phemies that occur during the twenty-four 
hours of the day. 

(The Magnificat is said here.) 

1. In union with the Sacred Heart of 
Jesus, come let ns adore the admirable 
Name of God, which is above all names. 

2. In union with the holy heart of Mary, 
come, etc. 

3. In union with the glorious St. Joseph, 
come, etc. 

4. In union with holy John the Baptist, 
come, etc. 

5. In union with the choir of Seraphim, 
come, etc. 

6. In union with the choir of Cherubim, 
come, etc* 

7. In union with the choir of Thrones, 
come, etc. 

8. In union with the choir of Domina- 
tions, come, etc. 



Appendix. 149 

9. In union with the choir of Yirtues, 
come, etc. 

10. In union with the choir of Powers, 
come, etc. 

11. In union with the choir of Princi- 
palities, come, etc. 

12. In union with the choir of Arch- 
angels, come, etc. 

13. In union with the choir of Angels, 
come, etc. 

14. In union with the Seven Spirits that 
are before the Throne of God, and the 
twenty-four elders, come, etc. 

15. In union with the choir of Patri- 
archs, come, etc. 

16. In union with the choir of Prophets, 
come, etc. 

17. In union with the choir of the 
Apostles and the Four Evangelists, come 
etc. 

18. In union with the choir of Martyrs, 
come, etc. 

19. In union with the choir of the holy 
Pontiffs, come, etc. 

20. In union with the choir of holy Con- 
fessors, come, etc. 



150 Appendix. 

21. In union with the choir of holy Vir- 
gins, come, etc. 

22. In union with the choir of holy Wo- 
men, come, etc. 

23. In union with all the Celestial Courts, 
come, etc. 

24. In union with all the Church and in 
the name of all men, come let us adore the 
admirable Name of God, and let us pros- 
trate ourselves before him. Let us weep 
in the presence of God who made us, for he 
is the Lord our God ; we are his people, and 
the sheep of his pasture. 



Salutations to Our Lord Jesus Christ in Re- 
paration of Blasphemy against his Sacred 
Person. 

In union with the whole Church and the 
hearts of Mary and Joseph, all burning 
with love, and in the name of all men we 
salute, we adore, and we love thee, O Jesus 
of Nazareth, King of the Jews, full of 
sweetness and humility, of grace and 
truth. Mercy and justice belong to thee ; 
love is thy substance ; thou art the Christ, 
only Son of the living God, and the 



Appendix. 151 

blessed fruit of the womb of the glorious 
Virgin Mary. 

O Jesus, Good Shepherd, who didst give 
thy life for thy flock, by all thy holy 
wounds, thy divine tears, and thy precious 
sweat, by all the sighs, groans, pains, love, 
the merits of the thirty-three years of thy 
holy life contained within the ineffable 
sanctuary of thy loving Heart, take pity on 
us poor and miserable sinners. Convert 
all blasphemers, and grant us a portion of 
thy divine merits now and at the hour of 
our death. Amen. 

In this manner we must salute our Lord 
three timQS, to honor his divine life, his 
glorious life, and his mortal life. 



Aspirations. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the body and 
blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in expia- 
tion of our sins and for the needs of thy 
Holy Church. Amiable Heart of Jesus, 
our mediator, appease thy Father and save 
sinners. 



152 Appendix. 

Powerful Heart of Mary, refuge of sin- 
ners, avert the shafts of divine justice. 

St. Michael, pray for us. 

St. Martin, pray for us. 

St. Louis, pray for us. 

O God our Protector, look upon us and 
cast thine eyes on the Face of thy Christ 
(Ps. lxxxviii. 9). 



A Coronet to the Glory of the Holy Name of 
God for the Reparation of Blasphemy. 

Instead of the " Credo" will be said: 

"We adore thee, O Jesus, and we bless 

thee, because by thy holy Cross thou hast 

redeemed the world. 

On the three small beads of the cross say : 
May the ever Holy Name of God be 
glorified by the Holy Soul of the Word 
made flesh. May the ever Holy Name of 
God be glorified by the Sacred Heart of 
the Incarnate Word. May the ever Adora- 
ble Name of God be glorified by all the 
wounds of the Incarnate Word. 

On the three large beads say : 
We invoke thee, O Sacred Name of the 



Appendix. 153 

living God, by the voice of Jesus in the 
Blessed Sacrament, and offer thee, by the 
blessed hands of Mary Immaculate, all the 
Sacred Hosts upon our altars as a sacrifice 
of reparation for all the blasphemies that 
outrage thy Holy Name. 

On each of the ten small beads : 

1. I salute thee, O Holy Name of the 
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in 
the Blessed Sacrament. 

2. I venerate thee, O Holy Name of the 
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in 
the Blessed Sacrament. 

3. I adore thee, O Holy Name of the liv- 
ing God, through the Heart of Jesus in the 
Blessed Sacrament. 

4. I give thee glory, O Sacred Name of 
the living God, through the Heart of Jesus 
in the Blessed Sacrament. 

5. I praise thee, O Sacred Name of the 
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in 
the Blessed Sacrament. 

6. I admire thee, O Sacred Name of the 
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in 
the Blessed Sacrament. 



154 Appendix. 

7. I extol thee, O Sacred Name of the 
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in 
the Blessed Sacrament. 

8. I magnify thee, O Sacred Name of 
the living God, through the Heart of Jesus 
in the Blessed Sacrament. 

9. I love thee, O Sacred Name of the 
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in 
the Blessed Sacrament. 

10. I bless thee, O Sacred Name of the 
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in 
the Blessed Sacrament. 



Loving Aspirations to our Blessed Lord to 
Repair the Blasphemy of the Jews. 

O Jesus, eternal truth and wisdom, who 
wast called a tempter and a madman, I 
adore thee and love thee with all my heart. 

O Jesus, in whom dwelt all the riches 
of divine science, who wast looked upon as 
ignorant and as the son of a carpenter, I 
adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, source of life, who didst hear 
the Jews say of thee, " Will he kill him- 
self ? " because thou saidst, " I go where 



Appendix. 155 

thou canst not follow me," I adore thee, 
etc. 

O Jesus, Divine Word, who wast sup- 
posed to be possessed by a devil and wast 
called a Samaritan, I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, God thrice holy, who wast 
treated as a sinner by the High-Priests, I 
adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, model of sobriety, whose ene- 
mies accused thee of gluttony, I adore thee, 
etc. 

O Jesus, enemy of sin, but full of pity 
for the guilty, who wast called the friend 
of publicans and sinners, I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, the splendor of the Father and 
the image of his substance, who wast ac- 
cused of being a false prophet, I adore 
thee, etc. 

O Jesus, the enemy of falsehood, who 
didst hear the Jews cast doubts on thy 
words by saying with irony, "Thou art 
not yet fifty and hast seen Abraham ? " I 
adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, all-powerful God, who, to con- 
form with our nature, which thou hadst 
taken upon thyself, wished to hide and 



156 Appendix. 

go from the Temple, that thou mightest 
not be stoned by thine enemies, I adore 
thee, etc. 

O Jesus, only Son and faithful worship- 
per of the living God, who wast accused 
by the High-Priest of blasphemy and wast 
adjudged worthy of death, I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, King of glory, who, full of 
sweetness and humility, didst permit thy 
Face to be spit upon, thy Head to be cov- 
ered with a veil and beaten and bruised, 
I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, who dost fathom our hearts and 
loins, to whom nothing is hidden, and who 
didst suffer without complaint these inso- 
lent words, "If thou art the Christ, tell 
who has struck thee," I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, King of peace, accused of per- 
verting the nation and preventing the pay- 
ment of the tribute-money, of causing the 
people to revolt and calling thyself King 
and Messiah, I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, King of kings, scorned by 
Herod and his court, and dressed in deri- 
' sion in a white robe like a madman, I adore 
thee, etc. 



Appendix. 157 

O Jesus, full of love, who didst hear the cry 
of the people, " Let this one die, and restore 
Barabbas to us," " Let his blood be upon us 
and upon our children," I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, King of heaven and earth, 
crowned with thorns, shamefully beaten, 
and so cruelly outraged by these words, 
" We salute thee, O King of the Jews," I 
adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, of infinite bounty, principle of 
all being, Sovereign Master of the world, 
who didst hear these words of doom, " Cru- 
cify him, crucify him ! lead him away ! lead 
him away! We have no other king but 
Caesar," I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, worthy of all praise, who when 
upon the Cross wast blasphemed by the 
passers-by, the impenitent thief, the High- 
Priests, the elders of the people, and the 
scribes and soldiers, I adore thee, etc. 

O Jesus, holy victim of sinners, who 
didst hear thine enemies say to thee, " He 
saved others and cannot save himself ; let 
this Christ, this King of Israel, now come 
down from the Cross, that we may see and 
believe in him," I adore thee, etc. 



158 Appendix. 

O Jesus, full of confidence, love, and 
respect for thy Divine Father, who wast 
wounded with the most lively pain when 
they said on seeing thee die, " He puts his 
trust in God ; if God love hirn let him de- 
liver him now, for he has said, I am the 
Son of God," I adore thee, and I love thee 
with all my heart. 



Prayer. 

I bitterly compassionate, O my Saviour, 
Jesus Christ, the anguish endured by thy 
divine Heart when thou didst hear blasphe- 
mies that thine enemies poured forth against 
thee and thy heavenly Father ; but what, 
O Jesus, must be thy sorrow in seeing 
that after thou hast given thy life, and 
the last drop of thy blood, for the sal- 
vation of men, thou shouldst still have, 
after the lapse of centuries, new enemies 
who reiterate a thousand times these blas- 
phemies ! Accept, my sweet Jesus, the ar- 
dent desire we have to repair all the out- 
rages and scorn thou hast received, and 
still dost receive every day, from heretics 



Appendix. 159 

and the impious. Oh! why cannot we 
protect thee from the anger of those that 
hate thee, and who are leagued against 
thee and thy Holy Church, thy stain- 
less spouse? Repeat with us, O merciful 
Jesus, that touching prayer thou didst 
offer to thy Divine Father before breath- 
ing thy last sigh : " Forgive them, Father, 
for they know not what they do !" We 
offer thee, as reparation for the many of- 
fences against thee, all the glory, honor, 
and praise, and all the joy, that the Holy 
Virgin and St. Joseph, the Saints and 
elect, did give thee and will ever give 
thee in time and eternity. Amen. 



Coronet 



In honor of the Holy Name of Jesus, for the re- 
paration of the blasphemies and injuries inflicted 
I by the Jews when they crowned Him with thorns. 

I salute thee, "Word of God, Saviour of 
men ; I adore thee, Sacred Host, true and 
living flesh, perfect divinity, true God and 
true man. O Jesus, who gavest me my 



160 Appendix. 

life, I adore thee and I love thee with all 
my heart. 

On the three small beads of the cross say : 
We give thee glory, O Jesus, and we 
invoke thy Holy Name. 

On the five large beads say : 
The Gloria Patr% one Pater, and one 
Ave. 

On each of the ten small beads say : 

1. May the Holy Name of Jesus be 
blessed ! 

2. May the Holy Name of Jesus be our 
meditation ! 

3. May the Holy Name of Jesus fill us 
with wonder ! 

4. May the Holy Name of Jesus be 
glorified ! 

5. May the Holy Name of Jesus be 
loved ! 

6. May the Holy Name of Jesus be 
crowned with honor ! 

7. May the Holy Name of Jesus be ex- 
alted ! 

8. May the Holy Name of Jesus be rev- 
erenced ! 



Appendix. 161 

9. May the Holy Name of Jesus be in- 
voked ! 

10. May the Holy Name of Jesus be 
praised and blessed in time and in eternity ! 



Prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ, the True Re- 
pairer of Outrages committed against the 
Glory of his Father. 

O Jesus, at the sight of the blasphemers 
of the Holy Name of God we pray thee to 
renew with us the prayer thou didst ad- 
dress to thy Divine Father, which has been 
transmitted to us by St. John, thy beloved 
disciple : " My Father, glorify thy Name ! " 
In that hour came a voice from heaven 
saying these words : " I have already glo- 
rified it, and shall glorify it yet more!" 
May this Voice be heard on earth ; we 
beg it of thee by thy sacred wounds and 
Adorable Face. As to ourselves, we will 
not cease to supplicate thee in thine own 
words : " Our Father who art in heaven, 
hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom 
come, thy will be done on earth as it is 
in heaven." 



162 



Appendix. 



Xitanp of tbe 1bol£ jface 

In Reparation for Blasphemies, and to implore 
of God, by the Adorable Face of his Son, the 
conversion of blasphemers. 

Lord, have mercy on us. 

Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. 

Lord, have mercy on us. 

Jesus Christ, hear us. 

Jesus Christ, graciously hear us. 

Holy Virgin Mary, pray for us. 

O Adorable Face, adored with profound 
respect by Mary and Joseph when they 
saw thee for the first time ; have mercy on 
us. Gloria Patri. 

O Adorable Face, which in the sta- 
ble of Bethlehem didst ravish with joy 
the Angels, the shepherds, and the wise 
men, 

O Adorable Face, which in the 
Temple didst transpierce with a dart 
of love the saintly Simeon and the 
prophetess Anna, 

O Adorable Face, which wast bathed 
in tears in thy holy infancy, 

O Adorable Face, which, appearing 
in the Temple, didst fill with admira- 
tion the Doctors of the Law, 



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Appendix. 163 

O Adorable Face, whose charms 
were so ravishing, and whose grace was 
so attractive, 

O Adorable Face, whose nobility 
characterized every feature,. 

O Adorable Face, contemplated by 
the Angels, 

O Adorable Face, sweet delight of 
the Saints, 

O Adorable Face, masterpiece of the tSj 
Holy Grhost, in which the Eternal <$ 
Father is well pleased, 

O Adorable Face, delight of Mary | 
and Joseph, <^ 

O Adorable Face, ineffable mirror of 
the divine perfections, 

O Adorable Face, which appeasest 
the anger of God, 

O Adorable Face, which makest the ^ 
devils tremble, ^ 

O Adorable Face, treasure of grace § 
and blessings, 

O Adorable Face, exposed in the 
desert to the inclemencies of the 
weather, 

O Adorable Face, which wast bathed 
with sweat in thy journeys and scorched 
with the heat and sun, 

O Adorable Face, whose expression 
was all divine, 



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164 Appendix. 

O Adorable Face, whose modesty 
and meekness attracted both just and 
sinners, 

O Adorable Face, troubled and 
weeping at the tomb of Lazarus, 

O Adorable Face, brilliant as the 
sun and radiant with glory on Mount 
Thabor, 

O Adorable Face, sorrowful at the 
sight of Jerusalem and shedding tears 
over that ungrateful city, 

O Adorable Face, bowed to the 
earth in the Garden of Olives and 
covered with confusion for our sins, 

O Adorable Face, bathed in a bloody 
sweat, 

O Adorable Face, kissed by the 
traitor Judas, 

O Adorable Face, whose sanctity 
and majesty struck the soldiers with 
fear and cast them to the ground, 

O Adorable Face, struck by an in- 
famous servant, blindfolded, and pro- 
faned by the sacrilegious hands of 
thine enemies, 

O Adorable Face, defiled with spit- 
tle and bruised by so many buffets and 
blows, 

O Adorable Face, whose divine look 
wounded the heart of Peter with re- 
pentant sorrow and love, 



Appendix. 165 

O Adorable Face, humbled for us at ^ 
the tribunals of Jerusalem, 

O Adorable Face, which didst pre- 
serve thy serenity when Pilate pro- 
nounced the fatal sentence, 

O Adorable Face, covered with 
sweat and blood, and falling into the 
mire under the weight of the cross, 

O Adorable Face, wiped with a veil 
by a pious woman on the road to Cal- 
vary, 

O Adorable Face, raised on the in- 
strument of the most shameful punish- 
ment, 

O Adorable Face, whose incompar- 
able beauty was obscured under the 
fearful cloud of the sins of the world, 

O Adorable Face, covered with the 
sad shades of death, 

O Adorable Face, washed and anoint- 
ed by Mary and the holy women, and 
covered with a shroud, 

O Adorable Face, enclosed in the 
sepulchre, 

O Adorable Face, all resplendent 
with glory and beauty on the day of 
the resurrection, 

O Adorable Face, all dazzling with 
light at the moment of thy ascension, 

O Adorable Face, hidden in the Eu- 
charist, 






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166 Appendix. 

O Adorable Face, which wilt appear at 
the end of time in the clouds, with great 
power and majesty, Have mercy on us. 
Gloria. 

O Adorable Face, which wilt cause sin- 
ners to tremble, Have mercy on us. Gloria. 

O Adorable Face, which wilt fill the just 
with joy for all eternity, Have mercy on 
us. Gloria. 

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins 
of the world, Spare us, Lord. 

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins 
of the world, Graciously hear us, Lord. 

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins 
of the world, Have mercy on us, Lord. 



Prayer. 



I salute, adore, and love thee, O Jesus, 
my Saviour, covered anew with outrages 
by blasphemers, and I offer thee, through 
the heart of thy Blessed Mother, the wor- 
ship of all the angels and saints, as an in- 
cense and a perfume of sweet odor, most 
humbly beseeching thee, by the virtue of 
thy Sacred Face, to repair and renew in 
me and in all men thine image disfigured 
by sin. Amen. 

Pater, Ave, Gloria. 



Appendix. 167 

Another Prayer. 

I salute, adore, and love thee, O Ador- 
able Face of Jesus my Beloved, noble im- 
age of the Divinity ; with all the powers of 
my soul I apply myself to thee, and pray 
thee most humbly to imprint in us all the 
features of thy divine likeness. Amen. 

By a Rescript dated 27th of January, 1853, His 
Holiness Pope Pius IX. grants to all /who recite with 
a contrite heart these prayers in honor of the Holy 
Face of Jesus Christ an indulgence of a hundred 
days for each time, applicable to the souls in Purga- 
tory. 



Bet of IReparation 

for blasphemy and irreverence, to be recited at the 
- monthly meeting of the Confraternity. 

O God, infinitely worthy of all adoration 
and love, I prostrate myself at thy feet, fill- 
ed with grief for the blasphemies uttered 
against thy Holy Name, and for the of- 
fences committed against thy divine wor- 
ship and the observances of thy Church. 

O my God, this blasphemy is the profana- 
tion of that which is most holy in the height 
of thine inaccessible sanctuary ; it is an at- 
tack upon thine infinite majesty ; an out- 
rage against the Face of thy Divine Son ; 
a crime without excuse, without any other 



168 Appendix. ' 

motive than that wickedness which hates 
thee, O God, infinitely worthy of all love ! 

We beg pardon, O Lord, a thousand times 
pardon, for these blasphemies. "Would that 
we could prevent them by the sacrifice of 
all that we are or that we possess ! At 
least it is in the sincerity of our hearts that 
we desire with all our power to combat this 
horrible crime, and for all we hear or 
know to offer instantly, by the merits of 
the Face of thy Christ, our humble and 
sorrowful expiation. 

But that which is most grievous to us is 
that, while blasphemy and infidelity daily in- 
crease, the adoration due to thee diminishes. 
Alas ! now, even more than in the days of the 
prophet Ezechiel, men neglect and profane 
thy holy days, because their hearts are given 
to idols. Slaves of avarice and of pleasure, 
they have no longer time for thy worship 
nor attraction to thine altars. The days 
set apart for thy service are profaned by 
their worldliness or pleasure. They aban- 
don thine house ; they fly from the preach- 
ing of thy word; they despise the sacra- 
ments and graces of the sanctuary to give 
themselves to labors forbidden or to amuse- 
ments still more criminal. 

O Lord, grant us the grace to make re- 
paration for this contempt and forgetful- 
ness of thee by the zeal and fervor of our 



Appendix. 169 

adoration. Bless this Confraternity estab- 
lished under the invocation of the Ador- 
able Face of Jesus Christ, that by its pray- 
ers and sacrifices it may bring back to thy 
worship and to the observances of thy 
Church the unfaithful who have strayed 
from thee. Receive our vows and promises 
never to transgress thy sacred precepts, 
neither in our own persons nor by those 
who are under our charge ; and, in every 
way possible to us, to procure the obedi- 
ence and honor which are due to thee. 

May the most Adorable Name of the 
Lord be glorified for ever ! 

May the holy days of thy Church be 
sanctified by all men ! Amen. Amen. 

Saint Michael, Pray for us. 

Saint Peter, Pray for us. 

Saint Martin, Pray for us. 

Saint Louis, Pray for us. 

Saint Yeronica, Pray for us. 

O God, our protector, look upon the 
Face of thy Christ, and we shall be saved ! 



Hn ©ffertna 



of the Infinite Merits of our Lord Jesus Christ to 
his Eternal Father in order to appease the divine 
justice and draw mercy on France. 

Eternal Father, turn thine offended eyes 
from culpable France, whose face has be- 



170 Appendix. 

come hideous in thy eyes, and look upon 
the Face of thy Son which we offer thee — 
this well-beloved Son, in whom thou art 
well pleased. Listen, we beseech thee, to 
the voice of his Blood and his wounds, 
which cry out for mercy. 

Eternal Father, behold the Incarnation 
of Jesus, thy Divine Son, and his sojourn 
in the womb of his Blessed Mother. We 
offer this to thee for the honor and glory 
of thy Holy Name and for the salvation 
of France. 

Eternal Father, behold the birth of 
Jesus in the stable of Bethlehem and the 
mysteries of his most holy infancy. We 
offer them to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the poor, hidden, 
and laborious life of Jesus at Nazareth. 
We offer it to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the baptism of 
Jesus and his forty days' retreat in the 
desert. We offer these to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the journeys, the 
vigils, the prayers, miracles, and sermons of 
Jesus. We offer them to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the Last Supper 
which Jesus made with his disciples, at 
which he washed their feet and instituted 
the august sacrament of the Eucharist. We 
•offer this to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the agony of Jesus 



Appendix. 171 

in the Garden of Olives, the sweat of blood 
which covered his Body and flowed to the 
ground. We offer this to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the outrages 
which Jesus received before his judges, 
and his condemnation to death. We offer 
them to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold Jesus burdened 
with his cross and walking towards the 
place where he is to be immolated. We 
offer him to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold Jesus crucified 
between two thieves, tasting gall and vine- 
gar, blasphemed by the Jews, and dying to 
repair thy glory and to save the world. We 
offer him to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the Sacred Head of 
Jesus crowned with thorns. We offer it to 
thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the Adorable Face 
of Jesus bruised with buffets, covered with 
sweat, dust, and blood. We offer it to 
thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the Adorable Body 
of Jesus taken down from the cross. We 
offer it to thee, etc., 

Eternal Father, behold the heart, soul, and 
divinity of Jesus, this holy Victim who in 
dying has triumphed over sin. We offer 
them to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold all that Jesus 



172 Appendix. 

Christ, thy only Son, has done during the 
thirty-three years of his mortal life to ac- 
complish the work of our Redemption. 
Behold all the mysteries of his holy life. 
We offer them to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold all the desires, all 
the thoughts, words, actions, virtues, per-, 
fections, and prayers, of Jesus Christ ; also 
all his sufferings and humiliations. We 
offer them to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the crib, the swad- 
dling-bands which have served Jesus at his 
birth. We offer them to thee, etc. 

Eternal Father, behold the cross, the nails, 
the crown of thorns, the reed, the bloody 
scourge, the column, the lance, the sepul- 
chre, the winding-sheet, and all the instru- 
ments which were used in the Passion of 
Jesus, thy Divine Son. We offer them to 
thee, etc. 



H fmnbreD ©fferfnas 

oj our Lord Jesus Christ to Sis Eternal Father. 

Thirty-three Offerings of Jesus Christ in his 
Infancy and Hidden Life, 

1. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, In- 
carnate in the womb of the Yirgin Mary 
for the salvation of men. 



Appendix. 173 

2. Eternal Father, I offer tliee Jesus, 
sanctifying St. John the Baptist in the 
womb of his mother, St. Elizabeth. 

3. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, a 
captive for nine months in the chaste womb 
of his Blessed Mother. 

4. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, re- 
jected by the inhabitants of Bethlehem. 

5. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, com- 
ing forth from the womb of his Mother and 
born in a poor stable. 

6. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
wrapped in swaddling-clothes and laid in a 
manger. 

7. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
trembling with cold and warmed by the 
breath of an ox and an ass. 

8. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
weeping for our sins in the manger. 

9. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, by 
the hands of Mary and St. Joseph, for the 
salvation of the world. 

10. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
nursed by Mary. 

11. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
adored by angels in the stable of Beth- 
lehem. 

12. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
adored by the poor shepherds. 

13. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
circumcised and named Jesus, beginning 



174 Appendix. 

to fulfil the office of Saviour in offering 
thee the first-fruits of his Blood. 

14. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
receiving the gifts and adorations of the 
Magi. 

15. Eternal Father, I offer thee all the 
glory that Jesus has rendered thee during 
the forty days he dwelt in the stable of 
Bethlehem. 

10. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
brought to the Temple by Mary and Jo- 
seph, and received with great joy by the 
holy old man Simeon and the prophetess 
Anna. 

17. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
who offers himself to thy divine justice to 
be the repairer of thy outraged glory and 
the holy victim of sinners. 

18. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
fleeing into Egypt to avoid the murderous 
hand of Herod. 

19. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
poor and unknown in his exile, but tenderly 
loved and profoundly adored by Mary, Jo- 
seph, and the Angels. 

20. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
carried in the arms of Mary and Joseph 
and submitting to all the trials of infancy. 

21. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
nursed by his Divine Mother for fifteen 
months. 



Appendix. 175 

22. Eternal Father, I offer thee the first 
steps, the first words, the first actions of 
thy Divine Son Jesus. 

23. Eternal Father, I offer thee all that 
Jesus suffered in the seven years of his exile 
in Egypt. 

24. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
returning to Nazareth between Mary and 
Joseph. 

25. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
growing in age and in wisdom before God 
and men. 

26. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
conducted to the Temple at the age of twelve 
years to celebrate the Passover. 

27. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
remaining three days in the Temple in the 
midst of the Doctors of the Law, and fill- 
ing them with admiration. 

28. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
found by Mary and Joseph, returning to 
Nazareth, and being perfectly submissive to 
them. 

29. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
hiding his glory in the workshop of St. 
Joseph, and seeming to be only a carpen- 
ter. 

30. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
working for his support by the sweat of his 
brow. 

31. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 



176 Appendix. 

assisting St. Joseph during his last illness 
and at the hour of his death. 

32. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
consoling Mary, his Blessed Mother, for 
the death of her holy spouse. 

33. Eternal Father, 1 offer thee all the 
glory that Jesus has rendered thee during 
the thirty-three years of his hidden and la- 
borious life, also all the merits he has ac- 
quired for us. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the glory 
that our Divine Saviour Jesus has ren- 
dered thee during the thirty years of his 
hidden and laborious life, and all the merits 
he has acquired for us from the moment of 
his Divine Incarnation until his evangel- 
ical Life. I make this offering for the 
honor and glory of thy Holy Name, in 
reparation for the indignities offered our 
Saviour; finally, for the wants of the 
Holy Church, the salvation of France, and 
the Work of Reparation. 



Thirty-three Offerings of Jesus in his Evan- 
gelical Life. 

34. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
baptized in the river Jordan by St. John the 
Baptist. 

35. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 



N Appendix. ; 177 

led by the spirit into the desert, and suffer- 
ing there hunger and thirst. 

36. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
spending his nights in the desert among 
wild beasts. 

37. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
passing days and nights in prayer, water- 
ing the ground with his divine tears, in 
expiation for our sins. 

38. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
tempted by the evil spirit to change stones 
into bread. 

39. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
carried by Satan to the top of the Temple, 
and tempted by this evil spirit to cast him- 
self down. 

40. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
carried by Satan to the top of a high moun- 
tain with the promise of all the kingdoms 
of the world. 

41. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
triumphing over the temptations of the 
evil spirit and confronting him with the 
words of Holy Scripture. 

42. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, in 
the desert taking the food ministered by 
the Angels. 

43. Eternal Father, I offer thee all the 
glory that Jesus has rendered thee in the 
desert and all the merits he has acquired 
for us. 



178 Appendix. 

44. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
coming forth from the desert and going to 
make known to his Blessed Mother the 
mission he was about to commence. 

45. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
choosing poor fishermen for his Apostles. 

46. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
going from city to city, from town to town, 
preaching everywhere the Kingdom of God, 
and making known his Divine Father. 

47. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
followed by immense crowds even to the 
deserts . 

48. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
multiplying the loaves and fishes to feed 
the multitude. 

49. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
consoling the afflicted. 

50. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
curing the sick and raising the dead. 

51. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
driving out the evil spirit from those who 
were possessed. 

52. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
giving sight to the blind and hearing to the 
deaf. 

53. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
curing the lame and making the dumb 
to speak. 

54. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
converting sinners and doing good to all. 



Appendix. 179 

55. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
weeping for the death of Lazarus and rais- 
ing him to life. 

56. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
converting Mary Magdalen. 

57. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
weary by the wayside and seated on Jacob's 
Well. 

58. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
asking drink of the Samaritan woman, 
converting her, and making known to her 
that he was the promised Messias. 

59. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
confounding his enemies with an admirable 
wisdom when they presented before him a 
woman taken in adultery. 

60. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
driving the sellers out of the Temple. 

61. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
transfigured on Mt. Thabor, conversing with 
Moses and Elias on the greatness of the 
sorrows of his Passion. 

62. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
embracing and blessing little children, bid- 
ding us to become as one of them to enter 
the Kingdom of Heaven. 

63. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
entering the city of Jerusalem in triumph, 
and received as a King by the people. 

64. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
weeping for the sins of Jerusalem. 



180 Appendix. 

65. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus 
alone and abandoned, obliged on the even- 
ing of the Feast to seek the hospitality of 
Martha and Mary, at Bethany. 

66. Eternal Father, I offer thee all the 
glory that Jesus has rendered thee during 
the three years of his divine preachings. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the glory 
that Jesus, our Divine Saviour, has ren- 
dered thee, all the infinite merits he has 
acquired for us from the moment of his 
evangelical life until his Passion. 

I make this offering for the honor and 
glory of thy Holy Name, to repair the out- 
rages offered our Divine Saviour ; finally, 
for the wants of the Holy Church, the sal- 
vation of France, and the extension of the 
Work of Reparation. 



Thirty-four Offerings of Jesus in Ms Suffering 
and Glorious Life. 

67. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
sold for thirty pieces of silver by the trai- 
tor Judas. 

68. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
taking his Last Supper with his Apostles. 

69. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
humbling himself unto washing the feet of 
his Apostles. 

70. Eternal Father, I offer, thee Jesus, 



Appendix. 181 

instituting the Adorable Sacrament of the 
Eucharist and ordaining his Apostles priests 
of the New Law. 

71. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
praying and in an agony in the Garden of 
Olives. 

72. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
suffering in his Divine Heart all the sor- 
rows of his Passion and watering the earth 
with a profuse sweat of blood. 

73. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
sorrowful unto death in the Garden of 
Olives, burdened with all the sins of the 
world, and accepting the chalice from thy 
Hand. 

74. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
betrayed and kissed by the perfidious Ju- 
das, delivering himself up to his enemies 
to be bound and blindfolded for our sins. 

75. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
abandoned by his disciples, maltreated and 
outraged by the soldiers, and led to the 
house of the high-priest Annas. 

76. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
interrogated and receiving a blow from a 
servant. 

77. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
conducted to the house of Caiphas and ac- 
cused by false witnesses. 

78. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
treated as a blasphemer because he declared 



182 Appendix. 

to his enemies that he was the Son of 
God. 

79. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
despised, struck, and spit upon during that 
horrible night, and treated as the vilest 
slave. 

80. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
-conducted in chains to Pilate's house. 

81. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
led to the court of Herod and despised by 
that impious king. 

82. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
reconducted to the house of Pilate, treated 
with contempt and humiliations on the 
streets of Jerusalem by a nation which he 
had overwhelmed with benefits. 

83. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
tied to the column and torn by the stripes 
of the scourge. 

84. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
covered with wounds and blood, trampled 

' upon by his executioners. 

85. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
arrayed as a mock-king, crowned with 
thorns, robed in a scarlet mantle, his arms 
tied, and a reed for a sceptre in his 
Hand. 

86. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
outraged, despised, and then shown to the 
people. 

87. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 



Appendix. 183 

rejected by his people, who with loud voices 
demanded his death and preferred to him an 
infamous thief, Barabbas. 

88. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
condemned by Pilate to the death of the 
cross. 

89. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
given over to an insolent multitude, who 
vent upon this sweet Lamb, so meek and 
humble of heart, all that the darkest malice 
could devise. 

90. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
going forth from Pilate's hall between the 
two thieves, carrying the cross upon his 
Divine Shoulders, bruised and bleeding. 

91. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
exhausted by fatigue, falling several times 
under the heavy burden of his cross, beaten 
and overwhelmed with injurious treatment 
by his executioners. 

92. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus 
on the summit of Calvary, despoiled of his 
garments and extending himself on the tree 
of the cross as a Lamb without stain. 

93. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
nailed with heavy blows of the hammer to 
the cross. 

94. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
suspended for three hours between heaven 
and earth, satiated with revilings, partaking 
of gall and vinegar, and tasting with de- 



184 Appendix. 

light the intensity of interior and exterior 
sufferings. 

95. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
asking forgiveness for his executioners, 
granting pardon to the good thief, and 
giving us his most Blessed Mother. 

96. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
^consummating his sacrifice and yielding up 
his Holy Soul into thy Hands, uttering a 
loud cry to call all sinners to him, inclining 
his Head to give them the kiss of peace 
and the last sigh of his Heart. 

. 97. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
his Heart pierced by a lance, his Sacred 
Body covered with wounds and blood, 
taken down from the cross and placed in 
the arms of his Divine Mother. 

98. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
embalmed and shrouded by his Holy Mo- 
ther, assisted by his faithful friends ; then 
carried to the sepulchre and remaining 
therein three days, as he had foretold. 

99. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
rising victorious from the tomb and visit- 
ing his Blessed Mother. 

100. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, 
appearing to his Apostles and the holy 
women for their consolation and instruc- 
tion, gloriously ascending to Heaven in 
their presence forty days after his Resur- 
rection. 



Appendix.^ 185 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the glory 
that Jesus Christ, our Divine Saviour, has 
rendered thee, as well as all the merits he 
has acquired for us during his sorrowful 
and glorious life. I make this offering for 
the honor and glory of thy Holy Name, in 
reparation for the indignities offered to our 
Saviour — in fine, for the needs of the Holy 
Church, for the salvation of France and 
the entire world, and for the extension of 
the "Work of Reparation. 

This is my well-beloved Son, in whom I 
am, well pleased. Hear ye him. 

In truth I say to thee that all thou wilt 
ask the Father in my Name he will grant. 
Ask, and thou shall receive. 



Zhc Sacteb tbumanits of Jesus, 

And the holy use he made of his Senses, offered to 
the Eternal Father to repair and efface the sins 
we have committed by oars. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Sacred 
Feet of Jesus, walking and travelling, and 
finally pierced by rough nails, to repair our 
criminal steps. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the de- 
vout and respectful prostrations of Jesus 
before thy Divine Majesty, to repair all 
our irreverences in thy holy presence. 



186 Appendix. 

Eternal Father, I offer tliee the Divine 
Hands of Jesus, which accomplished so 
many good works, and nevertheless were 
pierced by rough nails, to repair all the 
sins of our wicked hands and our iniqui- 
tous works. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Divine 
Arms of Jesus, fatigued by labor and torn 
by the whips of his executioners, to atone 
for our sins of sloth and all our other 
crimes. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Divine 
Head of Jesus, crowned with thorns, his 
hair covered with blood, to atone for our 
sins of pride and all our criminal thoughts. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Adorable 
Eyes and looks of Jesus, full of sweetness 
and majesty, to atone for our sins of im- 
modesty and curiosity. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee also his 
sleep, his vigils, his tears which flowed 
from his Divine Eyes, to merit the pardon 
of our falilts. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the mortifi- 
cation of the smell of Jesus, to atone for 
all the sins of sensuality of which we are 
guilty. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Ador- 
able Mouth of Jesus, his divine words, and 
his admirable silence, to repair all the sins 
that our bad and unruly tongue has com- 



Appendix. 187 

mitted. I offer thee also his fasts and his 
frugal meals, to repair all our sins of glut- 
tony and intemperance. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Ador- 
able Face of Jesus, covered with spittle, 
sweat, dust, and blood, bruised by buffets, 
and his beard torn out, to repair the pride 
and vanity, also all the other sins, of world- 
lings. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the prayers, 
praises, and thanksgivings of Jesus, to re- 
pair blasphemies and all sins committed 
against the glory of thy Name. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Sacred 
Body of Jesus, covered with wounds, to 
repair all the sins of our corrupt flesh. 
We offer thee the seven effusions of his 
precious Blood, to purify us from our 
crimes. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the inflamed 
Heart of Jesus, pierced by a lance, to re- 
pair all the sins committed by our hearts. 
I offer also all the desires, sighs, thoughts, 
affections, prayers, and virtues, all the ador- 
able perfections of this Divine Heart, to 
cover the poverty of our poor, miserable 
hearts. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the holy 
Soul of Jesus, that sacrificed itself for us 
and gave itself into thy hands at the mo- 
ment of death. By the glory and merits 



188 Appendix. 

of this most holy Soul, we pray thee to par- 
don and justify our criminal souls. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the divine, 
glorious, and laborious life of Jesus. "We 
beseech thee, by the holiness of his interior 
life, to pardon our lives, spent in indiffer- 
ence and dissipation. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the eternal 
birth of Jesus in the splendor of thy glory ; 
I offer also all the praises, honor, and eternal 
love he has for thee, to repair all the impie- 
ties and blasphemies of poor blinded sinners. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee this Divine 
Jesus, to adore, love, and glorify in him 
and by him all thy adorable perfections 
and thy Sacred Name, which is unknown 
to creatures, but which expresses all that 
thou art, and which thy Divine Son Jesus 
alone knows and adores in spirit and in 
truth, in the name of all souls redeemed 
by his precious Blood. 

I salute, adore, and love thee, O God the 
Father and God the Son, in the ineffable 
embraces of thy Divinity. I embrace with 
affection in the Sacred Heart of Jesus all 
creatures of heaven and earth, and I kiss 
thee with the eternal kiss of the Holy 
Ghost. 

God has so loved the world that he has 
given his only-begotten Son to be its Re- 
deemer. 






Appendix. 189 

Hn ©ffering 

To the Eternal Father of the Tilings ivhich his 
Adorable Son used during his Mortal Life — 
Precious Belies of Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the manger 
and hay upon which Jesus was laid at his 
birth. I offer also his poor swaddling- 
clothes and bands. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the two little 
doves and five pieces of silver given by the 
Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph to redeem 
Jesus at his Presentation. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the tunic 
which Mary wove for the Infant Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the cup from 
which the Infant Jesus drank. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the hammer, 
axe, saw, and other tools which the Divine 
Carpenter Jesus used. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the work 
he made. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the scourge 
which Jesus made with his Divine Hands 
to drive the sellers from the Temple. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the four 
didrachmas which Jesus made St. Peter 
take from the fish's mouth to pay the 
tribute. 

Eternal Father, r I offer thee the basin in 
which Jesus washed the feet of his Apos- 



190 Appendix. 

ties, and the linen with which he was 
girded. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the chalice 
which Jesus held in his Divine Hands 
after the Supper when he changed the wine 
into his precious Blood. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the thirty 
pieces of silver with which the Jews bought 
Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the cords that 
bound Jesus in the Garden of Olives. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the iron 
gauntlet from which Jesus received a buf- 
fet. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the band 
' with which the Jews blindfolded the eyes 
of Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the gag 
which Jesus' enemies thrust into his 
mouth. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the instru- 
ments which were used to torment our 
Lord during the night of his bitter Pas- 
sion. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the white 
robe of scorn in which Herod clothed 
Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the column 
of the flagellation, the cords which bound 
Jesus, and the fearful instruments with 
which they tore his flesh. 



Appendix. 191 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the royal 
crown of thorns, the scarlet mantle, and the 
reed which he held in his Divine Hands. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the steps 
which Jesus mounted and watered with 
his precious Blood when Pilate showed 
him to the people, saying : " Behold the 
Man!" 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the cords 
which bound Jesus as a criminal. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the sentence 
of death which was pronounced upon thy 
only Son. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the rods 
which were used to strike Jesus on the 
road to Calvary. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Veil of 
St. Veronica upon which Jesus impressed 
his Divine Features. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the ham- 
mers used in the Crucifixion of Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the vase 
from w^hich Jesus tasted the bitter draught. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the reed 
and sponge used to present Jesus the gall 
and vinegar. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Holy 
Cross of Jesus, empurpled with his blood, 
and the inscription Pilate had attached 
to it : " Jesus of Nazareth , King of the 
Jews ! " 



192 Appendix. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the sacred 
vesture of Jesus, sanctified by his tears, 
sweat, and blood, and upon which the sol- 
diers cast lots. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the sandals 
worn by the Sacred Feet of Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the gar- 
ments of Jesus, covered with blood and 
divided in four parts by the soldiery. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the lance 
which opened the Sacred Side of Jesus and 
pierced his most loving Heart, making it- 
our place of refuge. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the in- 
struments of torture used to accomplish 
the Passion of thy Divine Son Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the aro- 
matics and perfumes which embalmed 
the Sacred Body of Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the holy 
winding sheet and the bands which were 
honored in shrouding the Sacred Body 
of Jesus. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the holy 
sepulchre which enclosed the sacred 
corpse of Jesus, .the divine source of life. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the holy 
relics of thy Divine Jesus, humbly praying 
thee to look upon them with complacency. 
This divine look will render them more 
honor than can be rendered by all angels 



Appendix. 193 

and saints. It will be a very worthy re- 
paration for tlie profanations of which 
they have been the object. 

Arrest, O Divine Father, the instru- 
ments of thy justice, ready to strike us! 
Behold the instruments of the most Sacred 
Passion of Jesus, red with his Adorable 
Blood. May this sight change thy justice 
to mercy, and move thee to speak peace 
to France and the world. 



Prayers. 

I salute thee, Jesus of Nazareth, King 
of the Jews. Thou art the blessed Wheat 
of Nazareth, the delicious Bread of Beth- 
lehem, the Lamb of God immolated at 
Jerusalem. Feed us poor sinners now 
and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

"We give thee glory, O most amiable 
Heart of Jesus, wounded by the im- 
pious of all ages. As a sword they have 
sharpened their tongues, and pierced thee 
by their injuries, blasphemies, and sar- 
casms. We invoke thee, and we celebrate 
thy praises in a spirit of honor and Repa- 
ration. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the most 
Holy Face of thy Divine Son to appease 
thy wrath. Bemember his Divine Head 
has borne the thorns of our sins and has set 



194 Appendix. 

itself to receive the strokes of thy justice, 
of which he still bears the marks. Be- 
hold these Holy Wounds ! Incessantly 
they cry out to thee : Mercy, mercy, mercy 
for the whole world ! 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Holy 
Face of Jesus for the spiritual needs of 
poor sinners. It is the golden coin which 
alone can cancel their debts. 



H Xittle 3£jercise 

IN HONOR OF THE FIVE WOUNDS. 

Wound of the Right Hand. — Jesus, Son 
of Mary, who hast the power to forgive 
sins, grant me the remission of my faults 
through the merits of thy Holy Passion. 

Wound of the Left Hand. — Jesus, Son 
of Mary, who art a God of union, grant 
me the grace to communicate worthily. 

Wound of the Left Foot. — Jesus, who 
art the light of the world, deign to breathe 
in my soul the spirit of the Comforter. 

Wound of the Right Foot. — Jesus, Son 
<of Mary, who art Infinite Mercy, cleanse 
•me in thy precious Blood. 

Wound of the Sacred Heart. — Jesus, 
Son of Mary, who hast merited heaven for 
us, grant us eternal life. 

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Five 



Appendix. 195 

Wounds of thy Divine Son. We beseech 
thee to infuse in our souls the Divine Spirit 
which proceeds from thee and him ; by the 
merits of the Sacred Passion of Jesus nour- 
ish our souls with the Living Bread of the 
Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. 



Aspirations. 



Sacred Body of Jesus, that I have re- 
ceived in the most Blessed Sacrament of 
the Altar, preserve my soul unto eternal 
life. 

Jesus, Son of Mary, who hast been 
crowned with cruel thorns, grant that we 
may arrive at union with Thee. 

Jesus, Son of Mary, who hast three times 
inclined thy Divine Face to the earth in 
the Garden of Olives, deign to incline to- 
wards the earth of my heart, and water it 
with thy tears, thy sweat, and thy precious 
Bloody 

Spirit of Love, Tongue of fire, impress 
upon my heart the thrice Holy Name of 
God. # 

Spirit of Consolation, by Holy Commu- 
nion fill our souls with thy gifts and fruits. 

I salute thee, O Mary. Spouse of the 
Holy Ghost, conjure him to come and dwell 
in us. 



196 Appendix. 

H prater for tbe Cburcb* 

O God, by thy Holy Name liave pity on 
us, protect us, and save us. 

O good Jesus, in thy sweet Name guard 
our Sovereign Pontiff ; breathe into his 
soul the spirit of the Comforter. 

Jesus, thy Church is menaced with 
great trials ! . . . Holy Father, by the 
virtue of thy salutary Name protect the 
Church of Jesus Christ. This was the last 
will of thy Divine Son ; it is the holy 
prayer which love prompted towards the 
end of his life. Holy Father, keep in thy 
Name those thou hast given me (St. John 
chap, xxvii. 11). 

O most holy and worthy Mother, refuge 
of the Church, intercede for us and save us 
by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

St. Michael and the Holy Angels, guard 
the bark of Peter ; disperse its enemies 
by the Holy Cross of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 






Bepottons 

IN HONOR OF THE HOLY INFANT JESUS. 

The Month of the Divine Infant. 

On the 15th of the month Sister Saint- 
Pierre celebrated the Espousals of the 



Appendix. 197 

Blessed Virgin with St. Joseph. The 16th 
was consecrated to the mystery of the 
Incarnation. The nine following days she 
honored the Infant Jesus in the chaste 
womb of Mary, and accompanied the 
Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph in their 
journey to Bethlehem. On the 25th she 
celebrated the birth of the Holy Infant. 
On the 26th she adored him with the shep- 
herds ; on the 27th in his Circumcision 
when he was named Jesus ; on the 28th 
with the three kings ; on the 29th in his 
Presentation in the Temple; on the 30th 
in his Flight into Egypt. 

The first seven days of the following 
month were consecrated to the Infant 
Jesus in his place of exile; she honored 
there his first words, steps, actions, his 
purity and simplicity. On the 8th she 
celebrated the return of the Holy Family 
to Nazareth. 

On the 9th she contemplated Jesus be- 
ginning to work with St. Joseph. 

On the 10th she honored the obedience 
of the Infant Jesus to his parents. 

On the 11th she recalled the filial atten- 
tions he showed to his Blessed Mother 
and the faithful Guardian of his infancy. 
The 12th was consecrated to the journey 
of the Infant Jesus when at the age of 
twelve years he went with Mary and 



198 Appendix. 

Joseph to celebrate the Pasch, and also 
to the loss of the Child Jesus.- 

On the 13th she adored him in the midst 
of the Doctors of the Law, maintaining the 
rights of his Father. On the 14th she ren- 
dered homage to the Child found in the 
Temple by Mary and Joseph, and his re- 
turning in their company to Nazareth, 
where he was subject to them. 

Admirabile Women Jesu, quod est super 
omne nomen. Yenite, adoremus — " The 
Name which shall be called wonderful, 
the Name of Jesus, is the Name which is 
above every name. Oh ! come, let us wor- 
ship him." 

(Sister Saint-Pierre was accustomed to 
repeat this beautiful invitatory thousands 
of times, and received signal graces there- 

by.) 



prapers 

IN* HONOR OF THE INFANT JESUS AND HIS 
BLESSED MOTHER. 

An Act of Adoration to the Incarnate Word in 
the august Bosom of the Immaculate Virgin. 

O Word Divine, incarnate for me, I 
adore thee, and I love thee with all my 
heart ! 



Appendix. 199 

Eternal "Wisdom, come and teach us the 
way to heaven ! 

O King of kings, come and reign over 
the hearts of all men, particularly over 
mine! 

Come, all ye Angels, all ye men ; come, 
all creatures, and unite with me in adoring 
a God so humbled ! 

O Holy Virgin, O Blessed St. Joseph, 
obtain for me such a great purity of heart 
that this Divine Infant may not be obliged 
to seek shelter in a stable on finding in my 
soul obstacles to his graces ! 

May my heart be ever open to him, may 
he make it his throne, and may all the 
powers of my soul be submissive to him ! 

Open, ye Heavens ! O Mary, give us our 
King and our Saviour ! 



Prayer to the Infant Jesus. 

O Divine Infant Jesus, by the love 
which impelled thee to take Flesh in the 
bosom of thy Holy Mother, and by that 
same love which made thee find means 
to give thyself to us, I pray thee most 
humbly to pardon all my sins, to destroy 
in me the old man and clothe me with thy- 
self, so that I may no longer live but in 
thee and for thee, in honor of the abasement 



200 Appendix. 

of thy Divinity, which was united to our 
humanity. 



Offerings 

IN HONOR OF THE DIVINE INFANT JESUS, 

As a preparation for the twenty-fifth of each 
month. 

First Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer 
to thy honor and glory, and for my own sal- 
vation and for the salvation of the whole 
world, the mystery of the Birth of our 
Divine Saviour. 

Gloria Patri, etc. 

Second Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer 
to thy honor and glory, and for my eternal 
salvation, the sufferings of the most Holy 
Virgin and St. Joseph in that long and 
weary journey from Nazareth to Bethle- 
hem. I offer thee the sorrows of their 
hearts when they found no place wherein 
to shelter themselves when the Saviour of 
the world was to be born. 

Gloria Patri, etc. 

Third Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer 
to thy honor and glory, and for my eternal 
salvation, the sufferings of Jesus in the 
stable where he was born, the cold he en- 
dured, the swaddling-clothes which bound 



Appendix. 201 

him, the tears he shed, and his tender infant 
cries. 

Gloria Patri, etc. 

Fourth Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer 
to thy honor and glory, and for-my eternal 
salvation, the pain which the Holy Child 
felt in his tender Body when he submitted 
to Circumcision. I offer thee that precious 
Blood which then, for the first time, he 
shed for the salvation of the whole human 
race. 

Gloria Patri, etc. 

Fifth Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer 
to thy honor and glory, and for my eternal 
salvation, the humility, mortification, pa- 
tience, charity, all the virtues of the Child 
Jesus ; and I thank thee, and I love thee, 
and I bless thee without end for the in- 
effable mystery of the Incarnation of the 
Divine Word. 

Gloria Patri, etc. 

V. The Word was made Flesh. 

R. And dwelt amongst us. 

Let us Pray. 

O God, whose only-begotten Son was 
made manifest to us in the substance of our 
flesh, grant, we beseech thee, that through 
him, whom we acknowledge to be like unto 
ourselves, our souls may be inwardly re- 



202 Appendix. 

newed. Who liveth and reigneth with thee 
for ever and ever. Amen. 

(An Indulgence of one year to all the 
faithful who, with contrite heart and de- 
votion, in public or in private, on any of 
the nine days preceding the twenty-fifth of 
the month, shall recite these five Offerings 
with the versicle and prayer.) 



©ospel of tfoe 1bois IRame of 5esus* 

There is no other name under Heaven 
given to men whereby we must be saved. 
(Acts iv. 12.) 

In the name of Jesus let every knee 
bow, of things in Heaven, of things on 
earth, and of things under the earth, and 
let every tongue confess that our Lord 
Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the 
Father. (Phil. ii. 10.) 



Explanations of the Devotion to the Little 
Gospel of the Holy Name of Jesus. 

Our Lord himself teaches us to invoke his Holy 
Name : " Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in 
my name shall be given to you." St. Paul says: 
" Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord 
shall be saved." The victory gained over the demon 
by our Lord, and expressed by his Name of Jesus, 
which means Saviour, being a grace drawn from his 
Sacred Heart, its image is affixed to the little sachet 



Appendix. 203 

containing the Gospel of the Holy Name of Jesus, as 
a seal is applied to a reliquary to guarantee the au- 
thenticity of the relic. In honor of the five letters 
of the Name of Jesus, and through the virtue of his 
Five Wounds, our Lord has promised to grant five 
special graces to those who embrace this devotion 
with faith and piety. 

1. He will preserve them from lightning. 

2. From the snares and malice of the demon. 

3. From a sudden and unprovided death. 

4. He will make them walk with facility in the 
way of virtue. 

5. He will grant them final perseverance. 

Our Lord is pleased to manifest the power of his 
Holy Name by many other spiritual and temporal 
favors, such as conversions, cures, etc. This little 
sachet is particularly efficacious with dying sinners. 
The devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus is connected 
with that of the Reparation for Blasphemy by the 
cultus of the Holy Face. 

(Extract from the Life of Sister Saint-Pierre, Car- 
melite of Tours, France, written by herself, and 
published with the approbation of the Archbishops 
of Tours and New Orleans.) 

With the approbation of the Most Rev. Archbishop 
Gibbons. 

This Gospel, and all else connected with the Con- 
fraternity of the Holy Face, can be found at 184 
Barrack Street, New Orleans, La. 

Jesus, be to me a Jesus ! 



Prayers to excite Confidence in the Invoca- 
tion of the Adorable Name of Jesus. 

" And after eight days were accomplish- 
ed, that the Child should be circumcised, 
his name was called Jesus, which was called 



204 Appendix. 

by the angel before he was conceived in the 
womb." (Gospel of the Feast of the Cir- 
cumcision : Luke, ch. ii. v. 21.) 

" For there is no other name under Hea- 
ven given to men whereby we must be 
saved." (Acts of the Apostles, ch. iv. 
v. 12.) 

Divine Saviour! through the victory 
thou hast gained over Satan by taking the 
Name of Jesus, deliver us from his snares. 

Jesus, Son of God ! have mercy on us ! 

Jesus, Son of the Yirgin Mary ! have 
mercy on us ! 

O Jesus and Mary ! be propitious to us ! * 

Make us, O Lord ! to have a continual 
fear and love of thy Holy JSTanie, because 
thou dost never abandon the care of 
those who, by thy grace, cease not to love 
thee ; who livest and reignest, one God, 
world without end, Amen. 

Examined and approved. 

. Gentry, Vic. -Gen. 

Tours, July 24, 1848. 

When Jesus was named, 

Satan, conquered, was disarmed. 

{All rights reserved.) 

* An indulgence of twenty-five days for invoking the Holy 
Name of Jesus and Mary ; fifty days 1 indulgence to those who 
wear the Blue Scapular, plenary indulgence at the hour of 
death 5 twenty days for reverently bowing the head when pro- 
nouncing these sacred names ; an. indulgence of fifty days as 
often as"two persons salute each other, the one saying, in any 
language whatever, " Praised be Jesus and Mary " ; and the 
other replying, S1 Now and for ever." (Pius IX., Sept. 26, 1864.) 






Appendix. 205 

Prayer to the Holy Name. 

May the Adorable Name of Jesus be the 
sweet and daily music of my soul and the 
joy of my heart ; and when, in the agony 
and cold sweat of death, I give the last 
look for mercy, may the parting sigh of 
my soul be, Jesus ! Jesus ! Amen. 



praters 

IN HONOR OF THE MATERNITY OF THE 
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. 

O most holy and worthy Mother of God, 
impart abundantly to all mankind, thy chil- 
dren, the milk of grace and mercy. 

Hail, Mary, conceived without sin, mys- 
terious vine which has produced the Di- 
vine Grape, destined to be crushed in the 
wine-press of the Cross, whence issued a 
sacred wine that was deposited in the pre- 
cious vase of thy Immaculate Heart, to be 
distilled upon the children whose Mother 
thou didst become upon Calvary's mount. , 

O Divine Infant Jesus, I adore thee on 
thy Blessed Mother's bosom. Yes, O Di- 
vine Infant, in this state of humiliation 
and littleness thou art as worthy of our 
love, our homage, and adoration as when 
thou didst cure the sick, raise the dead 



206 Appendix. 

to life, and command the winds and 
waves. 

Here do I contemplate thee, silent and 
unknown, adoring thy Eternal Father's 
counsels upon thy life and dolorous Pas- 
sion. Already is the Cross planted in thy 
Heart ; thou dost only await the hour 
marked by thy Heavenly Father for thee 
to fulfil his will. 

Hail, Queen of Martyrs ! whose precious 
blood, blanched by maternal piety, flowed 
for fifteen months from thy virginal bosom 
to fill the sacred veins of the King of Mar- 
tyrs. 

O holy Virgin, how pure and admirable 
thou art ! The Holy Ghost seems ever oc- 
cupied with thee. At thy birth I hear him 
saying in his Divine Council: " Our Sis- 
ter is little. . . . What shall we do with 
our Sister in the day when she is to he 
spoken to ? " 

O mystery ineffable ! He who eternally 
reposes in the Bosom of the Father rests at 
the same time in the bosom of an humble 
Virgin. I adore thee, most Holy Infant 
Jesus, in that royal shrine surrounded by 
roses and lilies ; my soul experiences joy 
inexpressible at beholding thee dwelling 
in that House of Gold built by Supreme 
Wisdom. 

Come forth, O Divine Jesus, from the 



Appendix. 207 

virginal prison where love holds thee cap- 
tive; give me the consolation of beholding 
and adoring thee, and in a state that I may 
embrace thee. Let us rejoice ; the day of 
joy hath come at last, and the angels sing 
in heavenly strains, " Glory be to God on 
high, and on earth peace to men of good 
will ! " The hour of man's salvation has 
dawned. Behold his Saviour, born of Mary. 
O earth, thou didst become a heaven on 
that day eternally memorable. O glorious 
Mother of God, my hopes are realized, my 
yearning satisfied, now that I find Jesus, 
my Redeemer, in thy holy arms, resting 
upon thy maternal bosom, nourished with 
thy virginal milk. I hear the heavenly 
Spouse felicitating thee on thy blessed 
maternity. Yes, thou art beautiful in the 
eyes of thy Spouse, because thou hast pre- 
served intact the beautiful flower of vir- 
ginity. While angels in heaven sing the 
eternal canticle of the thrice Holy God, we 
on earth sing the virginal canticle of the 
Mother thrice a virgin. O grandeur of 
Mary ! O incomparable privilege ! O mys- 
tery of love ! 

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is 
with thee ; blessed art thou amongst wo- 
men, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, 
Jesus, whom thou didst nourish during fif- 
teen months with thy virginal milk. 



208 Appendix. 

We give thee thanks, O Blessed Virgin. 

Mary, for the great love with which thou 
didst suckle the King of Heaven, and we 
bless thy maternal tenderness. 

Eternal Father, we offer thee the Incar- 
nate Word, a Babe at his Blessed Mother's 
breast, rendering thee by this lowly action 
perfect praise for the honor and glory of 
thy Holy Name. 

O most holy and sweet Mother of God, 
remember thou art my Mother and that I 
am the little sister of the Holy Infant Jesus. 

Thy Divine Son has left upon thy bosom 
the charming virtues of his Holy Infancy, 
and he sends me to gather this celestial 
dew, which will fill my soul with purity, 
innocence, and simplicity. 

Receive, O Virgin and Mother, these fif- 
teen salutations in memory of the fifteen 
months during which thou didst nurse the 
Lamb of God, born in the stable of Beth- 
lehem. 

O holy and august Mother, what dost 
thou do ? " I give my milk to him who 
hath given me being." And what will be- 
come of this milk? "It will become his 
Flesh and the Blood of his veins. This 
Flesh which I give him will suffer the tor- 
ments of his Passion, and this Blood ob- 
tained from me will be shed upon the Cross 
for the salvation of sinners." 



Appendix. 209 

O Angels of Heaven, wliat think ye of 
this prodigy ? It was once your mission to 
give man delicious food on earth by show- 
ering manna from Heaven, and this was 
truly a great miracle. But behold now, 
with admiration inexpressible, the Virgin 
Mother, your Queen, nourishing God him- 
self, her Creator and yours. 

O Divine Blood of Jesus, refresh the 
earth that it may bring forth elect souls. 

(Our Lord promised that all who would thus 
honor hini should receive great blessings, that they 
would be especially assisted by his Blessed Mother, 
and that he would grant all their petitions. Holy 
Church keeps the Feast of the Maternity of the Bless- 
ed Virgin on the second Sunday in October.) 



Sister 5aint>fiMerre's praper 

TO THE QUEEN OF CARMEL FOR THE 
HOUSES OF HER ORDER. 

" O Holy Mary, sprinkle the flowers of 
Carmel with thy fruitful grace, that they 
may thus become so strongly rooted in this 
land of benediction as never to be eradicat- 
ed by the demon." 

The O Gloriosa Virginum seventy-two 
times in honor of her Divine Maternity. 

Come, Jesus, come ! Sit Nomen Domini 
henedietum. 



210 Appendix. 

Mother most pure, pray for us. O 
Mary, Mother of God, source of all our 
joy for time and eternity, be thou our 
strength. Lead us to the arms of thy Di- 
vine Child and teach us his winning ways-. 
When earth and sense shall fail show us 
thy gentle face, and in thy pure embrace 
let us meU the merciful gaze of our Sa- 
viour Jesus. Amen. 



©ur Xafc£ of Xa Salette* 

On the 19th of September, 1846, Our 
Blessed Lady appeared upon an Alpine 
mountain called La Salette to humble little 
shepherds named Maximin and Melanie, 
two innocent children through whose 
mouths she ■ reproached " her people " of 
France for their blasphemy and impiety. 
Tears were flowing from her eyes ; the cru- 
cifix was fixed upon her heart. She was 
surrounded by the instruments of the Pas- 
sion, and the cruel hammer and sharp pin- 
cers were the ornaments of her maternal 
bosom. 



Novena to Our Lady of La Salette. 

O my Blessed Lady Queen of Heaven, to 
thee and to thy sacred keeping, into the 



Appendix. 211 

bosom of thy mercy, this day and every 
day until the hour of my death, I commend 
my body and soul ; my every hope, joy, and 
sorrow, my life and the end of my life, I 
commend to thee, that every act may be ac- 
cording to thy will and that of thy Divine 
Son. Amen. 

Nine " Hail Marys," with the following 
Aspiration after each : 

Our Lady of La Salette, refuge of sin- 
ners, our reconciler with God, pray without 
ceasing for your children who have recourse 
to thee. Amen. 

Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. 
Amen. 



Exercise in Honor of Our Lady of La Salette. 

1. I salute thee, blessed soul of Mary, 
image of the Divinity. Ave Maria! 

2. I revere thee, sacred body of Mary, 
living temple of the Holy Spirit. Ave 
Maria ! 

3. 1 bless thee, precious blood of Mary, 
from which was formed the Body of the 
Man -God. Ave Maria! 

4. I kiss with profound respect the chari- 
table feet of Mary, which did not disdain 
to descend upon the mountain of La Sa- 
lette for the salvation of France. Ave 
Maria J 



212 Appendix. 

5. I exalt thee, most pure hands of Mary, 
who for the first time offered to the Eternal 
Father the Host without stain. Ave Ma- 
ria ! 

6. I venerate thee, chaste bosom of Mary, 
as the sanctuary of God, sacred ostensorium 
of the Incarnate Word. Ave Maria ! 

7. I invoke thee, Immaculate Heart of 
Mary, ardent furnace of charity. Ave 
Maria ! 

8. I solicit thee, blessed ears of Mary, 
always attentive and propitious to the cries 
of the unfortunate. Ave Maria ! 

, 9. I admire thee, beautiful eyes of Mary, 
full of sweetness and compassion, always 
open to our needs and ready to supply 
them. May we experience the virtue of 
thy charitable gaze. Ave Maria ! 

10. I regard thee with love, incomparable 
mouth of Mary, which pleads our cause 
without ceasing before the Sovereign 
Judge, and continually obtains favorable 
judgment. Ave Maria! 

11. I contemplate thee with joy, resplen- 
dent face of Mary, radiant with beauty 
and glory. Give to thy children the kiss 
of maternal love as a pledge of the treaty 
of peace, which we pray thee to obtain 
from a God irritated on account of our 
crimes. Ave Maria ! 

12. I salute thee, rainbow of mercy in 



Appendix. 213 

the day of storm ; appear before our terri- 
fied eyes and prevent the thunderbolt 
striking our guilty heads., Ave Maria ! 
Memorare. 

Our Lady of the Holy Name of God, 
may thou be blessed in all times and all 
places. 

(For connection between the dultus of 
the Holy Face and La Salette, see Life of 
Sister Saint-Pierre, page 74.) 



fovty SDa^s' pjaper 

FOR THE NEEDS OF THE CHURCH AND 
STATE. 

Commenced by M. Dupont in 1843. 

May God arise and his enemies be dis- 
persed ! Say three Pater JVosters, three 
Ave Marias, and three Gloria Patris. 

St. Michael and all the holy Angels, 
pray and combat for us. 

St. Peter and all the holy Apostles, in- 
tercede for us. 

St. Ignatius, St. Teresa, and all the in- 
habitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem, pray 
for us. 



Aspiration during the Day. 

May thy Holy Name, O Lord, be 
known and blessed in all times and places. 



214 Appendix. 

Blessed Yirgin Mary, reign over us with 
thy Divine Son Jesus. Amen. 

(This devotion is made from July 16, 
Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, until 
August 25, Feast of St. Louis, King and 
Protector of France.) 



Salutation 

TO THE HOLY VEIL OF ST. VERONICA, 

The greater Belie of the Vatican Basilica, 

Antiphojst. 

My heart speaks to thee ; my eyes seek 
thee; yes, Lord, I will always seek thy 
Face. Do not hide thy Face from me ; do 
not turn away from thy servant. 

V. O Lord, thou hast shown to me the 
light of thy Face. 

H. Thou hast given joy to my heart. 

Let us Pray. 

Grant in thy mercy, O Lord, that my 
soul, created by thy wisdom and governed 
by thy providence, may be filled with the 
light of thy Holy Face, through our Lord 
Jesus Christ. Amen. 



Appendix, 216 

Canticles 

IN HONOR OF THE HOLY FACE. 

From the French of Sister Saint- Pierre 

BY M. E. HENRY. 



Canticls First. 



From out the sanctuary's silence . 

What sighs are those I hear? 
What bitter cry is breaking 

From thy soul, Saviour dear? 
"Alas! the whole world wounds me 

With blasphemy's swift dart; 
My love hath lost its power 

O'er man's forgetful heart. 

H. 

u With deadly hatred banded, 

Schism walks forth to-day, 
The holiest laws defying, 

Impatient of their sway ; 
And my Face, that highest rapture 

In the vision of the blest, 
With a constant memory cruel 

Of their outrage is impressed. 



11 ye to whose brave spirits 

My glory is so near, 
To whom my victory eometh, 

My triumph is so dear, 



216 Appendix. 

Ye are my cherished spouses ; 

My name e'er holy keep, 
Asking ever for the guilty 

Pardon and sorrow deep. 

IV. 

" Of old, before my Passion, 

Veronica, with love's great power, 
Clad with courage, seemed to soften 

All the anguish of that hour. 
Another Veronica I now long for 

Who, adoring night and day, 
On my bleeding brow unceasing 

The veil of her true love shall lay. 



"And Veronica, j;he faithful, 

My grateful memory knew; 
Of my Holy Face for ever 

She kept the Image true. 
To ye also I now leave it; 

Let your hearts be impressed deep, 
And with love's tender homage 

A fervent incense keep. 

VI. 

" In this Countenance divine 

The Godhead is concealed; 
'Tis the mirror where his beauty 

^Eternal is revealed. 
Ah ! Christian soul, if only 

Thou knewest the holy spell 
Of that Face, what supreme rapture 

Would in thy spirit swell ! 

VII. 

" On the Brow behold the Father, 
From the lips list to the Son, 

In the eves' pure light the Spirit 
Of the Holy Three-in-One. 



Appendix, 217 

And these sacred tresses, countless, 

The symbols seem to be 
Of the attributes surrounding 

The God-like Trinity. 



" This Holy Face reflecting 

My Blest Humanity 
Is for thee the precious ransom 

Paid for thine eternity. 
None have ever met denial 

Who looked to its priceless worth, 
That Face of treasures holiest 

That await the elect of earth. 

IX. 

"Alas! blasphemy's outrage 

Wounds me on every side; 
Have I no brave defenders 

In whom I may confide? 
Avenge me, faithful virgins, 

My cruel wrongs repair ; 
Be yoursthe gentle vengeance 

Of love and tears and prayer. 



"Within your hearts my Image 

Deeply shall ye enshrine, 
Till its beauty shall enkindle 

The fires of love divine. 
And this Face for e'er adored 

The sign and the seal shall be 
Of the grace which shall be thy greeting 

In a blest eternity." 



218 Appendix. 

Canticle Second, 
i. 

Lord Jesus, our God, our Brother, 

We have grieved thee, Saviour above; 

Before thy Face, God-like and lonely, 
We pour out our tears and our love. 

Refrain : Face ever adored, 

Behold 'neath thee now 
A people most sinful 
In penitence bow. 



See the Brow, where the thorns are piercing, 
And the Face— ah! God, is it thine? 

The tears and the blood of Redemption 
Are veiling those Eyes divine. 
Face ever adored, etc. 



" We have seen him," crieth the prophet, 
"Without beauty, deserted, alone, 

As a reed all bruised by the tempest, 
As a leper cast forth from his own." 
Face ever adored, etc. 

IV. 

Of the sons of men the fairest, 
Bright Mirror of splendors divine. 

Behold him, for thou art, sinner, 
His tormentor ; the lashes are thine. 
Face ever adored, etc. 

v. 

Holy Face, on that night most cruel 
Thou with infamous blows wast stained; 

The Most High, the God thrice holy, 
By the fury of wretches profaned. 
Face ever auored, etc. 



Appendix. 219 



VI. 



We were there ; our hands have wounded 
Our Christ. Ah ! sinners, 'tis true ; 

We were the faithless companions, 
False friends — we deserted him, too. 
Face ever adored, etc. 



VII. 



Forgive us, Jesus, our Victim ! 

Forgive them that slight thee, we pray; 
When before thee we kneel in sorrow, 

Thy Face, Lord, turn not away. 
Face ever adored, etc. 



Holy Face, our days and our vigils, 
Our vows and our tears, are thine ; 

The world seeks its false pleasures, 
We are shielding the Face divine. 
Face ever adored, etc. 



IX. 

We shield thee, and thou wilt shield us — 

Thy sorrows to us belong ; 
Our brows are pure when thou lookest, 

And near thee our hearts are strong. 
Face ever adored, etc. 



Face Divine, Face ever desired, 
Our steps turn ceaseless to thee ; 

Face of God, for ever adored, 
Where thou waitest us soon let us be. 
Face ever adored, etc. 



220 Appendix. 

Canticle to St. Peter Repenting. 



Before the Altar, where the soul repentant. 
Beholding God, with sin and sorrow crushed, 

Remembers and adores Love immolated, 
The heart dejected, powerless, is hushed. 

First Refrain : Oh ! holy tears, 

Heart-voices flow, 
Telling its fears, 
Regrets, and woe. 



Ah ! fruitful tears, how oft our souls have sought ye, 

How oft we waited for ye, all in vain ; 
Bring forth from their deep sources, mighty Pa- 
tron, 
Of love repentant bring our tears, blest rain. 
Oh ! holy tears, etc. 



in. 

Thrice in that night of blasphemy had Peter 
Faltered, and, alas ! his Lord denied. 

Ah ! sinners, let us weep — weep for ourselves 

And for the countless sins we cannot hide; 

Oh ! holy tears, etc. 



IV. 

When Peter saw its look on him as a sinner, 
He was the first conquest of the Holy Face ; 

Already wounded but divine for ever, 
It blest and pardoned him with mercy's grace. 
Oh! holy tears, etc. 



Appendix. 221 

v. 

And when his Lord had once looked on Peter 
Grief smote him, and, with swift, repentant cry, 

He wept for his sin ; and those dews penitential 
Dwelt ever in his eyes till life's last sigh. 
Oh ! holy tears, etc. 

VI. 

But one blest day the stream that o'er his spirit 
In sorrow flowed a sweeter measure traced ; 

The triple sin was blotted out for ever — 
Was by the triple oath of love effaced. 
Oh ! holy tears, etc. 

Second Refrain : Oh ! sweet tears, flow ; 
Come, fervor true, 
Your power show, 
And our hearts subdue. 

VII. 

" Thou knowest, Lord, I love thee," vows the Apostle, 
And from Christ's feet arises, all the weight 

The supreme burden bearing of Chief Shepherd ; 

His tears of love crown him and consecrate ! 

Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc. 

VIII. 

Thou who thyself didst know one human weakness, 
Thou who thy God's forgiveness sweet didst taste, 

Thou whom he vested with his wondrous powers 
To open for us Heaven's riches, haste ! 
Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc. 

IX. 

The Church, alas ! like Christ at the Tribunal, 
Ever on dread Calvary's Mount appears. 

Around our Mother's feet, then, let us sorrow ; 
But let Hope strengthen, make sweet our tears. 
Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc. 



222 Appendix. 



x. 



For we have loved her, holy Church immortal, 
Where thou dost live again, the Three-in-One. 

She keeps thy faith ; help us, God ! to give her 

Our tears and blood, even as thou hast done. 

Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc. 



H IRbstbm. 

(Pope John XII. , elected Sovereign Pontiff at Avig- 
non in 1316, wrote the following prayer in honor of 
the Most Holy Veil, and granted an Indulgence of 
twenty-five years and twenty-five quarantines to the 
faithful who would recite it. To those who cannot 
read the same Indulgence is granted provided five 
Our Fathers, five Hail Marys, and the Gloria be 
said for the same intention.) 



Hail, token of love to Veronica given ! 

Stamped divinely on linen, without spot or stain, 
Pure and bright with the splendor that comes but 
from Heaven ; 

features most sacred of Jesus, all hail ! 



ii. 

Hail, glory of earth, of thy faithful the Mirror ! 

'Tis to see thy blest Face Thrones and Virtues 
aspire ! 
Send afar from us all the dark stains of error, 

That with thee at last we may find our desire. 



Appendix. 223 



in. 



Hail, features most sacred! hail, Face of my Saviour! 

Oh ! shed on us here the sweet light of thy love. 
Prom on High thou receiv'dst the Omnipotent favor 

Of freeing our senses from all but thy love. 



IV, 



Hail, rampart of Faith ! be with us for ever ; 

Before thee dread Heresy's poisonous dart 
Is dispelled. Bless thy people; oh! let us ne'er sever 

Our eyes from thy features, our love from thy 
Heart. 



Hail, refuge in sorrow, and help in our way ! 

Through this lifetime of danger oh ! be our tried 
friend ; 
Call us ever, blessed Image, to Heaven away, 

Where thy radiant Face beckons us to ascend. 



VI. 

Hail, Jesus Divine ! hail, diamond most bright ! 

O'er the light of the firmament shines thy soft ray. 
God himself formed these lines, beauteous, fair in 
his sight, 
And without mortal aid bid these blest Features 
to stay. 



VII. 

Hail, reflection unchanging, of joy without end ! 

The glory Divine which on thee appears 
Is ever as pure as when first to us given ; 

Beauty e'er new, thou fad'st not in years. 



224 Appendix. 



VIII. 



Hail, Essence of Majesty, Sacred yet kind ! 

Thy Face the calm impress of purity bears; 
Oh ! let us not Justice but sweet 'Mercy find, 

And grant us in Heaven a rest from our fears I 



IX. 



Oh ! be our loved Refuge, our Help, and our Star ; 

Be a soft, soothing balm to our hearts, till above, 
In the calm rest eternal of thy Heaven afar, 

We may praise thee for ever and ever in love. 

Amen. 

Let us Pray. 

Give joy to the countenance of thy ser- 
vants, O my Lord, and save our souls from 
the darkness of hell, that, being protected 
by the contemplation of thy Adorable 
Face, we may trample on all carnal desires, 
and see thee, O Lord Jesus, our Saviour, 
face to face, without fear, when the clouds 
of Heaven will open to admit us to thy 
judgment. Amen. 



Appendix. 225 



H TRbstbm* 

(The following prayer was composed by Pope 
Clement VI. at Avignon. His Holiness granted an 
indulgence of three years to all those who would re- 
cite it before a Vera Uffigies, or authentic fac-simile 
of the Veil of St. Veronica.) 



venerated Features, hail ! 

On the bleeding altar of the Cross, 
Alas ! how altered and how pale ! 

Thou look'st so sorrowful and sad, 
Staining with thy Sweat and Blood 
This precious Veil and wood ! 



ii. 

Token of thy Passion sad, 

This Veil is brightest even now ; 
'Twas stamped and given for our Redemption, 

Inflame my soul, sweet Jesus, teach 
My heart the fire of thy love ; 
Reveal to us thy Features fair above. 



in. 

Oh ! grant me, at the end of life, 
Of God the beauty for ever to see ; 

Give to my then transported soul 
The bliss of Heaven's felicity. Amen. 

V. Make the light of thy Countenance, 
O Lord, to shine upon ns, 

i?. Thou hast given gladness to my 
heart. 



226 Appendix. 

V. Save thy servant. 
Ii. Trusting in thee, O my God. 
V. Save me in thy mercy, O Lord. 
i?. Let me not be confounded, for I have 
called upon thy Name. 

V. Make thy Face to shine upon thy 
servant. 

R. And teach me thy way upon earth. 
V. O Lord God of Hosts, convert us. 
i?. And show thy Face, and we shall be 
saved. 

V. O Lord, hear my prayer. 
It. And let my cry come unto thee. 

Let us Pray. 

O God, who hast shed upon us the light 
of thy Face, and who wast pleased, through 
Veronica, to leave us thy Holy Image im- 
printed on this veil as an eternal token of 
thy love, grant us by thy Passion and 
Cross the grace so to honor, adore and 
glorify thee here below, through this mys- 
tical Veil, that we may without fear meet 
thy gaze when thou wilt receive and judge 
us in Heaven. Amen. 

O Eternal and Omnipotent God, whose 
Divine Features are revealed through this 
precious Image to thy people here as- 
sembled, grant us the pardon of our sins, 
and direct our actions, words, senses, and 



Appendix. 227 

faculties. We trust in thy mercy, O Lord, 
who liveth and reigneth with thee in the 
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world 
without end. Amen. 



Devout a&bress to tbe Sacrefc jface* 

O Face Divine ! 
Face most sorrowful yet so benign! 
So beauteous still in grief, towards me incline ! 

Sacred Eyes ! 
On which the weight of dreaded anguish lies, 
That look must break the heart which Christ denies. 

Lips so meek ! 
tlnless their all- absolving word I seek, 
Those lips one day eternal doom will speak. 

Sacred Face ! 
Which mortal hand has dared with prayer to trace, 
Thee on my heart with throbs of awe I place. 

Face Divine ! 
Give me of love returned some blissful sign; 
O Face Divine, in grief towards me incline. 



Mr ' 



